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! Pierre-Auguste Renoir More Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir More Quotes From Pierre-Auguste Renoir To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur. Pierre-Auguste Renoir genius done artist We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators. Pierre-Auguste Renoir searchers creator periods I've spent my life making blunders. Pierre-Auguste Renoir blunders It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. Pierre-Auguste Renoir sarcasm sarcastic inspirational There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting essentials It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. Pierre-Auguste Renoir canvas enough clever I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. Pierre-Auguste Renoir finished finishing thinking To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. Pierre-Auguste Renoir portraiture good-friend language Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing. Pierre-Auguste Renoir light trouble doors I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation. Pierre-Auguste Renoir girl skins meat I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting wall The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. Pierre-Auguste Renoir rewards artist should In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known. Pierre-Auguste Renoir generations recipes men On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette. Pierre-Auguste Renoir ivory artist mean To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature. Pierre-Auguste Renoir laws-of-nature artist law I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver. Pierre-Auguste Renoir flesh beauty looks If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. Pierre-Auguste Renoir amusement believe art You don't talk about paintings, you look at them. Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting looks Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. Pierre-Auguste Renoir delicacy artist grace Why should beauty be suspect? Pierre-Auguste Renoir suspects should beauty
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