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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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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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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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