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
perfection principles artistic
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.
artist law laws-of-nature
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
real artist people
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!
artist imagination use
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
artist discovery use
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.
pain real artist
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
artist genius done
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.
artist rewards should
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
mean artist ivory
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.
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.
kings artist clumsy
God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
giving-up artist way
An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
courage art famous-artist
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
artist two imagination
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.