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White does not exist in nature.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

White, Doe

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

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Painter, Buttocks, Breasts

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

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Looks, Painting

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

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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.

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Artist, Genius, Done

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

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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.

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Artist, Grace, Delicacy

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

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I've spent my life making blunders.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Blunders

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

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Artist, Law, Laws Of Nature

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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

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Painting, Pinching, Feels

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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

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Immortal, Simplest, Subjects

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

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Drawing, One Day, Painting

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

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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.

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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.

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Artist, Two, Imagination

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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.

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Character, Trying, Would Be

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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!

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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.

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Art, Thinking, Two

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

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Secret, Method

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

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Artist, Rewards, Should

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

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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.

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People, Treasure, Landscape

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

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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.

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Color, Sound, Add

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

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Want, Fool, March

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Born: February 25, 1841
Died: December 3, 1919
Occupation: Artist
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