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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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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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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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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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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 artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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