I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. — 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
