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"I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"To express himself well, the artist should be hidden... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible"
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you."
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater."
Quote by -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 work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!"
Quote by -Pierre Auguste Renoir
"The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."
Quote by -Jim Morrison
"There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality"
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,"
Quote by -Simone Weil
"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress."
Quote by -Deborah Moggach
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn."
Quote by -Don DeLillo
"Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost."
Quote by -Donald Henry Rumsfeld
"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."
Quote by -Duke Ellington