Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes - Page 3

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• We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Periods, Searchers, Creator

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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 arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, Want, Innocence

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• God, the king of artists, was clumsy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Kings, Artist, Clumsy

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• The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Imagination, Use

  "The Art of Self-Deception: An Intelligible Guide". Book by Giles Auty, p.88, 1977.

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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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• 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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• I've spent my life making blunders.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Blunders

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Grace, Delicacy

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

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Periods, Timeliness

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