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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.
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 have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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