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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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