Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes - Page 2

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• The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Rewards, Should

  FromRenoir's notebook, quoted in L Nochlin Impressionism and Post-Impressionism1874-1904 (1966).

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• Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Character, Trying, Would Be

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• A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painter, Buttocks, Breasts

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• I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Monsters, Lawyer, Politician

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• I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Color, Sound, Add

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• With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Queens, Years, Black

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• There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  People, Treasure, Landscape

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• To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Genius, Done

  "Jean Renoir: Raymond Durgnat". Book by Raymond Durgnat, p.370, 1974.

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• It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Flower, Liberty, Stories

  "Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry" by Charles Altieri, (p. 169), 1989.

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• The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Immortal, Simplest, Subjects

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• Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Genius, Craftsman

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• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Things In Life, Needs, Enough

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• To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Law, Laws Of Nature

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• The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Ideas, Finished

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• You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Looks, Painting

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• I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Looks, Flesh

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• I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Finishing, Finished

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• You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Want, Fool, March

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• I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, Want, Innocence

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• Why should beauty be suspect?

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Should, Suspects

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• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Trust, Nice, Giving

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• What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Ideas, People, Done

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• We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Periods, Searchers, Creator

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