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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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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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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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