Best Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes
- There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. Essential
- Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must… Art
- And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. Art
- Everybody has their reasons. Everybody
- The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. Artist
- They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is… Belief
- With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. Limited
- Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not… Any
- If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. Amuse
- The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. Advantage
- God, the king of artists, was clumsy. Artist
- Why should beauty be suspect? Beauty
- 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… Add
- On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched.… Ancients
- With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! All
- White does not exist in nature. Doe
- It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. All
- Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. Art
- I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. Finished
- I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I… Afflicted
- If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they… Craft
- The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished. Afterwards
- The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest. Artist
- About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I… Break
- I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. Ahead
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