Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Ideas, Finished

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• I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painting, Good Work, Painter

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• A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Understanding, Able, Firsts

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• The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Wall, Purpose, Painting

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• The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Important, Elements, Defined

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• Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Love You, Heart, Mind

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• People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Trust, Nice, Giving

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• 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

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Works Of Art

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Real, Artist, People

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• You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Ends, Painter

  "Renoir: His Life and Work". Book by François Fosca, p. 176, 1975.

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• God, the king of artists, was clumsy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Kings, Artist, Clumsy

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• I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Dry, Paint, Conclusion

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• Why should beauty be suspect?

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Should, Suspects

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Flying, Machines

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• One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Perfection, Principles, Artistic

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• With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Today, Painter, Wells

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• About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Realizing, Paint, Break

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• They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Believe, Nymphs, Tree

  "Renoir: My Father". Book by Jean Renoir, p. 137, 2001.

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• It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Years, Twenties, Painting

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• 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

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