Pierre Auguste Renoir Famous Quotes

"The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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

"Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"God, the king of artists, was clumsy. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bal du moulin de la galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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

"Without him, I would have given up. (on Claude Monet) ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself and listen only to his real master: Nature. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. ( on Leonardo da Vinci) ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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"The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Girls at the Piano by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you being a genius. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"You don't talk about paintings, you look at them. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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

Dance at Bougival by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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

Reclining Nude by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"The most important element in a picture cannot be defined. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"I have no rules and no methods...no secrets. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Umbrellas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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

"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

"Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, and 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."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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"You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"The only way to understand painting is to go and look at it. 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

"I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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"I've spent my life making blunders. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre Auguste Renoir Biography & Facts

"In a few generations, you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known. ”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"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 

 

 

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