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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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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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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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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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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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