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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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