To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.” — 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
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do. — 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
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. — 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 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
