Auguste Renoir
Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir, was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth25 February 1841
CountryFrance
Auguste Renoir quotes about
beauty should suspects
Why should beauty be suspect?
important elements defined
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
character trying would-be
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.
flying machines stuck
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
years twenties painting
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
things-in-life needs enough
There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
queens years black
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
color bells want
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.
secret method
I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
periods searchers creator
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
love-you heart mind
Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
looks painting
You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
ideas people done
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.
artist grace delicacy
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.