Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-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."...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth25 February 1841
CityLimoges, France
Pierre-Auguste Renoir quotes about
consider law-and-lawyers lawyers monsters women
I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters
art matter painting
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.
art order perfection
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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.
good-friend portraiture language
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
years yellow one-day
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!
artist law laws-of-nature
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
realizing paint break
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.
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!
fool want march
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
thinking periods timeliness
Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
clever canvas enough
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
painting good-work painter
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
monsters lawyer politician
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.