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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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