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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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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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