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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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 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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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 advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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