"Why should beauty be suspect?" — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Why should beauty be suspect?"

— 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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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