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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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 arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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