Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes

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• Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Needs, Emotion

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Things In Life, Creating

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Courage, Pain

  "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.

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• One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Courage, Art, Capacity

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• One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Morning, Color, Black

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• Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Cost, Littles, Accomplish

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• Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Order, Perfection

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• Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, World, Enough

  Quoted in Ian Chilvers and Harold Osborne (eds) The Oxford Dictionary of Art (1994).

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• I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Taken, Painting, Breasts

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes". Book by Tibballs Geoff, p. 80, 2012.

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• Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Work, Order, Secret

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• When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Want, Painting, Bottom

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• There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Essentials, Painting

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• Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Photography, Portraits, Painting

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• The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Passion, Mean

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• I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Want, Painting

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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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• The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Mistake, Growing, Advantage

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• There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Two, Ineffable

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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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• Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Thinking, Two

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• Everybody has their reasons.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Reason, Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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• If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Two, Imagination

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• An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Giving Up, Artist, Way

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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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• It's with my brush that I make love.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Making Love, Brushes

  Quoted in Albert Andre, Renoir (1919). Often quoted as "I paint with my prick."

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