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"I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion."
Quote by -Pierre 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."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that."
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"I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver."
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"There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more."
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"Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"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."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."
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"Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"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 arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child."
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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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"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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"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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"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature."
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"I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right."
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"Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"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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"There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable."
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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."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"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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"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've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing."
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"He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]"
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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."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"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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"Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do."
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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."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir