You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — 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
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
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament… — 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 took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. — 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
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
