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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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