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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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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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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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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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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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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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.
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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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