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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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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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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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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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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