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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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