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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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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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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 modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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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 have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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