Auguste Renoir Quotes
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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I've spent my life making blunders.
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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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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What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
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I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
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People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
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Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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.
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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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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.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
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About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.
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If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.