Auguste Renoir
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."...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth25 February 1841
CountryFrance
Auguste Renoir quotes about
consider law-and-lawyers lawyers monsters women
I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters
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.
good-friend portraiture language
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
years yellow one-day
Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
artist law laws-of-nature
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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.
fool want march
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
clever canvas enough
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
painting good-work painter
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
monsters lawyer politician
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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.