An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.” — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
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… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
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… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share
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