Auguste Renoir Quotes
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With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.
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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
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"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
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It's with my brush that I make love.
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Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
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You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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I've spent my life making blunders.