"It is not enough for a painter to……" — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too."

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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76 Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir has 76 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means…
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…

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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes.… — Amy Adams
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is… — John Berger
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. — Pierre Bonnard
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some… — Vanna Bonta
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like… — Sophia Bush
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People… — Nick Cave
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope
With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin. — Drake
Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like? — Pat Morita

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