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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 arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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