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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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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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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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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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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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