Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Page 2

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Artist
Essentials
Painting
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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 / Artist
Excitement
Feels
Needs
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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 / Artist
Heart
Love You
Mind
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Artist
Bottom
Painting
Want
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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 / Artist
Canvas
Clever
Enough
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Artist
Accomplish
Cost
Littles
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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 / Artist
Painter
Today
Wells
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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 / Artist
Good Work
Painter
Painting
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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 / Artist
Men
Generations
Recipes
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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 / Artist
Confidence
Smile
Artist
Pain
Real
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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 / Artist
Painting
Twenties
Years
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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 / Artist
Art
Mean
Museums
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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 / Artist
Conclusion
Dry
Paint
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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 / Artist
Queens
Black
Painting
Years
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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 / Artist
Beauty
Flesh
Looks
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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 / Artist
Gay
Paint
People
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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 / Artist
Art
Opposites
Understanding
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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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Add
Color
Sound
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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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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
Delicacy
Grace
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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 / Artist
Believe
Nymphs
Tree
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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!
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Progress
Years
Yellow
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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 / Artist
Doe
Looks
Trying
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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.
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Artistic
Perfection
Principles
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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.
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Break
Paint
Realizing
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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.
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School
Succeed
Technique
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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.
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Needs
Technique
Views
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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 / Artist
Art
Smile
Creating
Mind
Things In Life
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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 / Artist
Done
Ideas
People
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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 / Artist
Character
Trying
Would Be
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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.
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Girl
Meat
Skins
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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.
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Ends
Painter
Thinking
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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
Done
Genius
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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.
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Art
Matter
Painting
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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.
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Art
Mean
Passion
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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.
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Artist
Ivory
Mean
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What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Artist
Flower
Liberty
Stories
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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 / Artist
Doors
Light
Trouble
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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 / Artist
Landscape
People
Treasure
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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
Artist
Discovery
Use
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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!
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Artist
People
Real
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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 / Artist
Able
Firsts
Understanding
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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
Imagination
Artist
Two
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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 / Artist
Museums
Nymphs
Simplicity
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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 / Artist
Children
Frustration
School
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