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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.
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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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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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