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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 -
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
Auguste Renoir
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The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Auguste Renoir -
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
Auguste Renoir -
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Auguste Renoir -
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Auguste Renoir
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
Auguste Renoir -
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Auguste Renoir -
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
Auguste Renoir -
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
Auguste Renoir -
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
Auguste Renoir -
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
Auguste Renoir
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
Auguste Renoir -
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
Auguste Renoir -
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
Auguste Renoir -
Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
Auguste Renoir -
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Auguste Renoir -
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Auguste Renoir
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Auguste Renoir -
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Auguste Renoir -
Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
Auguste Renoir