Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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.

• 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).

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Needs, Emotion

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Order, Perfection

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Courage, Art, Capacity

• He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
  [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Flying, Machines

• You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Nature, Theory

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

• "The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Works Of Art

• 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

• How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Opposites, Understanding

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Two, Ineffable

• In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Matter, Painting

• 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

• And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Mean, Museums

• If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Believe, Amusement

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