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
making-love brushes
It's with my brush that I make love.
monsters lawyer politician
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
essentials painting
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
things-in-life needs enough
There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
queens years black
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
today painter wells
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
painting pinching feels
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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.
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.
courage art famous-artist
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
cost littles accomplish
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
good-friend portraiture language
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
fool want march
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
understanding want able
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.