Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes - Page 4

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Nature, Theory

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

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painting, Pinching, Feels

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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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• 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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• 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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