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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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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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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 modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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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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