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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 work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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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 arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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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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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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