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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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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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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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