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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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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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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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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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