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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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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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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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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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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 would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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