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
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. — 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
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] — 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
“-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.” — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest. — 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
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
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 Image
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. — 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 day you'll… — 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
There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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