Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes - Page 2

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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 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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• Everybody has their reasons.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Reason, Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Looks, Painting

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• I've spent my life making blunders.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Blunders

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• Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Grace, Delicacy

  "Renoir: His Life and Work". Book by François Fosca, p. 175, 1975.

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Genius, Craftsman

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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 simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Immortal, Simplest, Subjects

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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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• Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Joy, Making Love, Paint

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

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Secret, Method

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

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  Children, Want, Innocence

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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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• 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 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 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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• 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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