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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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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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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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