Quote

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
Artist
Drawer
Illustrator
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Lemòtges
Auguste Renoir
Pjer-Ogist Renoar
Pierre Auguste Renoir
August Renoir
Pierre August Renoir
firmin auguste renoir
p.a. renoir
renoir p.a.
Renoir
a. renoir
august renoir
pierre august renoir
Simplest
Immortal
Subjects
Ones

More quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Image
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
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!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir