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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 like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred. — Christopher Moore

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

I like big butts, Renoir explained to Toulouse-Lautrec. — Christopher Moore

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting. — Jean 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

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. — Grant Achatz

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke. — Auguste Renoir

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember. — Jean 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

All great art is abstract. — Jean 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

The really terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — 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

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. — Robert Henri

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them. — 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

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur. — 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

Everybody has their reasons. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again. — Jean Renoir

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts. — 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 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

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. — 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

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema. — Jean Renoir

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. — Jean 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

Why should beauty be suspect? — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci] — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"The work of art must seize upon you ... carry you away." — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons — Jean Renoir

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. — 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

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it. — 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

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons. — Jean Renoir

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

White does not exist in nature. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors. — Alexandra Stoddard

He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed. — Susan Vreeland

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. — Auguste Renoir

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. — Jean Renoir

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal? — Jean Renoir

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. — Jean Renoir

You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him. — Jean Renoir

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man. — Jean Renoir

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining. — Roger Ebert

Wilshire Boulevard ... It has no smell to it. — Jean 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

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

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Everyone has his reasons. — Jean 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

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

God, the king of artists, was clumsy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've spent my life making blunders. — 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

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside. — Mike Svob

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The foundation of all civilization is loitering. — Jean Renoir

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir