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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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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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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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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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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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