Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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

  Art, Things In Life, Creating

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

• Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Photography, Portraits, Painting

• I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Taken, Painting, Breasts

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes". Book by Tibballs Geoff, p. 80, 2012.

• When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Want, Painting, Bottom

• There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Essentials, Painting

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Drawing, One Day, Painting

• 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

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painting, Pinching, Feels

• I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Want, Painting

• 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

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Wall, Purpose, Painting

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Wall, Painting

  Quoted in Ambroise Vollard, Auguste Renoir (1920)

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Looks, Painting

• 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

• 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

  Flower, Liberty, Stories

  "Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry" by Charles Altieri, (p. 169), 1989.

• 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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