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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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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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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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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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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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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 most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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