"The most important element in a picture cannot…" — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"The most important element in a picture cannot be defined."
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76 Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things…
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means…
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There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a…
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning.…
— Scott Adams
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
— Edward de Bono
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of…
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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