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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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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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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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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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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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