Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've spent my life making blunders.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's with my brush that I make love.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

— 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.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

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

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

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

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

I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

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

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

White does not exist in nature.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Why should beauty be suspect?

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

God, the king of artists, was clumsy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Everybody has their reasons.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir