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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir -
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
Auguste Renoir -
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
Auguste Renoir
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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.
Auguste Renoir -
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!
Auguste Renoir -
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
Auguste Renoir -
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
Auguste Renoir -
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Auguste Renoir -
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
Auguste Renoir -
God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
Auguste Renoir -
Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir
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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.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir -
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.
Auguste Renoir -
Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
Auguste Renoir