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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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