Pierre Auguste Renoir Quotes

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

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

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

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

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

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

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

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.

It's with my brush that I make love.

What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] 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.

The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.

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 work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!

We'll be fine’, Pierre-Auguste Renoir said assertively. ‘We are good artist; we know that. Remember what Baudelaire said before he died: "Nothing can be done except little by little." That is what we are doing, it is not big, but it is something!

I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

There’s nothing more absurd than a “connoisseur.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. —PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR

The pain passes, but the beauty remains

But in the middle of 1882, when Maria was sixteen, she was offered a modelling assignment with an artist who far overshadowed Zandomeneghi. It was then that Maria was recommended to Pierre-Auguste Renoir.