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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 arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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