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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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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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