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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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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'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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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