Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Order, Perfection

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Work, Order, Secret

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• I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Genius, Craftsman

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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 need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Needs, Excitement, Feels

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Giving Up, Artist, Way

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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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• I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Secret, Method

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