Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found the long-winded speeches of lawyers especially trying and advised them to take a…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

God, the king of artists, was clumsy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've spent my life making blunders.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Why should beauty be suspect?

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir