Auguste Renoir Quotes
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
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I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
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Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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We've got to stop worrying about the offense, too. Our biggest concern should be our defense.
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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.
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Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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There is a grim and ghastly humor -- the humor that is born of a pathetic philosophy -- which now and then strikes me in reading the bright and keen-witted work of our American paragraphers. It is a humor that may be crystallized by hunger and sorrow and tears. It is not found elsewhere as it is in America. It is out of the question in England, because an Englishman cannot poke fun at himself. He cannot joke about an empty flour-barrel. We can: especially if by doing it we may swap the joke for another barrel of flour. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
