Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

White does not exist in nature.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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,…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

It's with my brush that I make love.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir