Auguste Renoir Quotes

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

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.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

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

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

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

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

I've spent my life making blunders.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

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

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

Everybody has their reasons.

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.