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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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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 had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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