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
mistake growing advantage
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
looks painting
You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
love-you heart mind
Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
periods searchers creator
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
white doe
White does not exist in nature.
secret method
I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
children want innocence
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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.
artist imagination use
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
ideas finished
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
painting good-work painter
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
character trying would-be
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.
clever canvas enough
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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.