Character Quote by Robert Henri

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.

— Albert Wolff

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

— Cyril Connolly

The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning…

— Roger Housden

“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters…

— Christopher Moore

Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a…

— Claude Monet

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate…

— Walt Whitman

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

— Alfred Sisley

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own…

— Barnett Newman

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure…

— Pablo Picasso

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

— Pierre Soulages