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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 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 just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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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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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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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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