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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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 just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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 simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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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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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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