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.
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.
painting pinching feels
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
essentials painting
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
years twenties painting
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
looks painting
You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
taken painting breasts
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
photography portraits painting
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
want painting bottom
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
want painting
I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
consider law-and-lawyers lawyers monsters women
I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters