Auguste Renoir Quotes
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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.
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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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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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I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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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 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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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.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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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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God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
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Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.