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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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 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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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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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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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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