Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes

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• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
• An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
• I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
• One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
• People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
• Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is…
• The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys…
• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
• When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
• We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
• If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers…
• The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
• It's with my brush that I make love.
• I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
• In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
• I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
• Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
• Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
• I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live…

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