I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my w…

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir