Amuse Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— 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 day you'll…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— 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 true?

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

White does not exist in nature.

— 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…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir