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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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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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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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