What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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 morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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
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…
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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