Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

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.

If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.