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
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.
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.
art bad-ass enemy
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
art nature theory
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
art two ineffable
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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?
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.
art works-of-art
"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."