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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.
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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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