"With a limited palette, the older painters could……" — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder."
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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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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
— Paul Auster
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also…
— Konrad Adenauer
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
— Annie Besant
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever…
— Aesop
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Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
— John Bolton
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
— Edmund Burke
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