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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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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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