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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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.
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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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