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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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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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