Auguste Renoir Quotes
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It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
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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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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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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
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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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I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
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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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It's with my brush that I make love.
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You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.