Auguste Renoir Quotes
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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.
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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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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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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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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
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Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
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Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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!
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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.