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What seems most significant t...

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 13 quotes

It took me twenty years to di...

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

I have a horror of the word '...

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 13 quotes

A fat lot of good it would do...

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 13 quotes

They tell you that a tree is ...

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 13 quotes

Berthe Morisot was a painter ...

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 13 quotes

My concern has always been to...

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

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

You haven't time to think abo...

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 13 quotes

It is impossible to repeat in...

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 13 quotes

There isn't a single person o...

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 13 quotes

Out-of-doors there is a great...

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 13 quotes

Paint with joy - with the sam...

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

Photography freed painting fr...

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

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

Art is about emotion; if art ...

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

If it [dabbling in art] didn'...

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

I want a red to be sonorous, ...

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.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

There are two indices of genu...

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

To express himself well, the ...

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.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

What is to be done about thes...

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 13 quotes

The only reward one should of...

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 13 quotes

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