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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

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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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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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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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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!
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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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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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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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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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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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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