Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Famous Quotes & Sayings
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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.
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.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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.
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.