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Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more. There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I have no rules and no methods ... no secrets. I have no rules and no methods ... no secrets.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: It's with my brush that I make love. It's with my brush that I make love.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest. The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: 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. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness. Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver. I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved. A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: The simplest subjects are the immortal ones. The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known. In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect. The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Why should beauty be suspect? Why should beauty be suspect?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw. I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman. Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius. Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators. We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service. Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts. I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity. One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Everybody has their reasons. Everybody has their reasons.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: -last words about painting, age 78 ... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it. -last words about painting, age 78 ...
I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur. There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period. Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I've spent my life making blunders. I've spent my life making blunders.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: The most important element in a picture cannot be defined. The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance. People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time. You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it. I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. 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 quotes: There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: "The work of art must seize upon you ... carry you away." "The work of art must seize upon you ... carry you away."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: White does not exist in nature. White does not exist in nature.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do. Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that. I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature. To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: God, the king of artists, was clumsy. God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters. People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: You don't talk about paintings, you look at them. You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes: My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

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