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
years twenties painting
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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.
trying doe looks
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
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.
drawing one-day painting
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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!
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.
artist law laws-of-nature
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
fool want march
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.