Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes - Page 4

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• Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Periods, Timeliness

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• 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

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• People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Gay, People, Paint

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 64), 1975.

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• If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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• It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Views, Technique, Needs

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

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• If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  School, Succeed, Technique

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• I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Wall, Painting

  Quoted in Ambroise Vollard, Auguste Renoir (1920)

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• My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Fruit, Paint

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• Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Light, Doors, Trouble

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

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• I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, School, Frustration

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• I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Girl, Skins, Meat

  Quoted in Jean Renoir Renoir, My Father (translated by R and D Weaver,1962).

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• In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Men, Generations, Recipes

  Quoted in Jean Renoir, Renoir My Father (1958)

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• To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Good Friend, Portraiture, Language

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• Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Years, Yellow, Progress

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• What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Museums, Nymphs, Simplicity

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 164), 1975.

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• It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Clever, Canvas, Enough

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• The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Discovery, Use

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 178), 1975.

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• On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Mean, Artist, Ivory

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• An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Confidence, Pain, Real

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Nature, Theory

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