Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius. Pierre-Auguste Renoir More Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir More Quotes From Pierre-Auguste Renoir Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period. Pierre-Auguste Renoir timelinessperiodsthinking I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. Pierre-Auguste Renoir painterpaintinggood-work God, the king of artists, was clumsy. Pierre-Auguste Renoir clumsyartistkings The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished. Pierre-Auguste Renoir finishedideas My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. Pierre-Auguste Renoir fruitpaintbeauty Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do. Pierre-Auguste Renoir mindlove-youheart I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw. Pierre-Auguste Renoir conclusiondrypaint 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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir frustrationchildrenschool 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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir realizingpaintbreak You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous. Pierre-Auguste Renoir painterendsthinking 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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir artisticprinciplesperfection He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. Pierre-Auguste Renoir machinesflyingart I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. Pierre-Auguste Renoir innocencewantchildren Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service. Pierre-Auguste Renoir accomplishcostlittles You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. Pierre-Auguste Renoir naturetheoryart 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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir ableunderstandingfirsts 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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir artistusediscovery There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. Pierre-Auguste Renoir ineffabletwoart I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. Pierre-Auguste Renoir pinchingpaintingfeels 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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir doetryinglooks
