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.
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.
painting good-work painter
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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
drawing one-day painting
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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.
painting pinching feels
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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.
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.
today painter wells
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
beauty fruit paint
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
essentials painting
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.