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.
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.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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.
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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