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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?
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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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