"One must from time to time attempt things……" — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."
—
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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…
See all 76 quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir »
More Attempt Quotes
This quote is filed under Attempt Quotes,
one of 1,586 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
-
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
— Kevin Bacon
-
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
-
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
-
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
-
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
-
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
-
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
-
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
-
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
-
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
See all 1,586 Attempt Quotes »