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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes

«The pain passes, but the beauty remains.»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Painter) | About: Beauty, Pain | Keywords: passes, remains
«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»
«An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Painter) | Keywords: oblivion
«When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.»
«Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.»
«I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters»
«It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Painter) | Keywords: steaks
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Painter) | About: Painting | Keywords: knocks, reasonably
«I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.»