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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 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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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