The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals,… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was,… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done… — 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
