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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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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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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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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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 work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture 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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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