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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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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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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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