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There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I have no rules and no methods ... no secrets.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
It's with my brush that I make love.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.
— Auguste Renoir
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
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
-last words about painting, age 78 ... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Why should beauty be suspect?
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Everybody has their reasons.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I've spent my life making blunders.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
— Auguste Renoir
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"The work of art must seize upon you ... carry you away."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
White does not exist in nature.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
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
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir