Auguste Renoir Quotes
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I've spent my life making blunders.
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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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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 most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible.
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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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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
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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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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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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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 consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
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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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Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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.