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