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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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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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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 simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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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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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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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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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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