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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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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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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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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 modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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