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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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 no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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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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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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 consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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