QUOTES by Pierre Auguste Renoir
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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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"The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater."
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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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"What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs."
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"I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."
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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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"I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts."
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"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."
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"The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy."
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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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"My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit."
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"I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall."
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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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"I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them."
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"It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.""God, the king of artists, was clumsy."
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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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"Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do."
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"Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard."
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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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"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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"He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]"
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"I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing."
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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 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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"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."
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"There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable."
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"I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw."
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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 just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right."
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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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"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."
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"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."
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"And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums."
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"I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child."
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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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"I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it."
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