Art Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after…

— Winston Churchill

“I remembered some of what I'd read in the past: the small group of the original Impressionists, including one woman-Berthe Morisot- who'd first banded…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Tyree was a dreamer who painted idealized women in idyllic South Pacific landscapes, the faces of wizened island men and later exotic animals. His…

— C.J. Cook

“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury had ripened…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Among Berthier’s many qualities was a diplomatic nature so finely attuned that he somehow managed to persuade his wife, the Duchess Maria of Bavaria,…

— Andrew Roberts

“What artist could recreate Sidonie's sensuous beauty? No mere dauber could capture the feminine musk on the air. Or depict the soft, uneven pattern…

— Anna Campbell

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic…

— Walter Scott

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is…

— Germaine Greer

“Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.”

— Angus Wilson

“He had danced with fair maidens before, but Odette was different. She was graceful and beautiful, but there was something in her eyes and…

— Melanie Dickerson

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic…

— Wyndham Lewis