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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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More quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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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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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
