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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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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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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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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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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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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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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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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