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
children school frustration
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
men recipes generations
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
ideas finished
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
artist imagination use
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
children want innocence
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
wall painting
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
wall purpose painting
The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
blunders
I've spent my life making blunders.
drawing one-day painting
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
understanding want able
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.
thinking ends painter
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
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.
trying doe looks
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.
art bad-ass enemy
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.