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
painting pinching feels
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
cost littles accomplish
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
art nature theory
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
dry paint conclusion
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
art two ineffable
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
doors light trouble
Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
museums nymphs tree
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
views needs tools
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.
girl skins why-not
I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
art opposites understanding
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
gay people paint
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
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.
flower liberty movement
What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.