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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.
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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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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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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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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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