Top 100 Quotes About Auguste
#1. I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#2. The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole ... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#3. The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
Auguste Rodin
#4. In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#6. He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#7. Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#9. Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.
Alyson Noel
#10. In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.
Jane Leavy
#11. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#13. The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
Auguste Rodin
#14. The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
Auguste Rodin
#15. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin
#16. There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin
#18. In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.
Auguste Rodin
#19. If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#23. Philippe-Auguste was an ugly child, with uncombed hair and dirt all over him, and the face of a cretin.
Guy De Maupassant
#25. If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy ...
Auguste Rodin
#27. One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#28. If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
Auguste Comte
#29. Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#30. In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
Auguste Comte
#31. Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
Auguste Comte
#34. The Egyptian duck is a dangerous animal: one snap of its beak and you are infected with Egyptology for life.
Auguste Mariette
#35. Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Auguste Rodin
#36. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#37. You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#38. My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#40. Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
#41. 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!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#42. Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.
Auguste Rodin
#43. Auguste had fought with honour. He had
been the one honourable man on a
treacherous field.
C.S. Pacat
#44. Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.
Auguste Rodin
#45. I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#46. Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
Auguste Comte
#48. I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.
Auguste Rodin
#49. Mathematical Analysis is ... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
Auguste Comte
#50. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Auguste Rodin
#52. It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#53. With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#54. 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.
'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'
Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.
Christopher Moore
#55. Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#56. If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#57. One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#58. Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
Auguste Comte
#59. I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#61. The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#63. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#64. One must work, nothing
but work, and one must have patience ...
Auguste Rodin
#65. Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.
Auguste Escoffier
#66. I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
Auguste Rodin
#67. To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Auguste Rodin
#68. -last words about painting, age 78 ...
I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#70. With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#71. The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
Auguste Rodin
#72. The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
Auguste Rodin
#73. Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
Auguste Rodin
#74. Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
Auguste Comte
#75. Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Auguste Comte
#76. The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
Auguste Comte
#77. So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.
Auguste Escoffier
#80. There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#82. The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
Auguste Comte
#84. How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future ... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
Auguste Rodin
#85. The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#86. Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
Auguste Escoffier
#88. The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
#89. Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#90. Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.
Auguste Escoffier
#91. I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#92. My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#93. The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#94. Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Auguste Rodin
#95. He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
Auguste Rodin
#96. When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#97. If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#98. The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.
Auguste Rodin
#99. But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.
Auguste Laurent
#100. Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.
Auguste Rodin
