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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!
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 morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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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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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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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 advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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