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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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 advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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