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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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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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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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
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It's with my brush that I make love.
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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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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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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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I've spent my life making blunders.