Top 100 Quotes About Renoir
#1. 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
#3. '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
#4. Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then, even if your paintings are shit, you will have loved them all.
Christopher Moore
#6. Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.
Jean Renoir
#7. It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
Roger Ebert
#8. I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.
Lenny Breau
#9. Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
Robert Henri
#10. I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.
Alexandra Stoddard
#11. Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.
Mike Svob
#12. One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden ... Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
Orson Welles
#13. Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
Grant Achatz
#14. I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
Christopher Moore
#15. My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
Jean Cocteau
#16. 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
#17. The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
Jean Renoir
#18. In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#19. He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#26. When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
Jean Renoir
#27. He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.
Susan Vreeland
#28. One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#29. Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#36. 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
#37. I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#38. The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons
Jean Renoir
#41. A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.
Jean Renoir
#42. It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
#47. 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
#49. The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#51. The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
Jean Renoir
#52. 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
#53. -last words about painting, age 78 ...
I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#54. With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#56. There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#58. The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#59. Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#60. I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#61. The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#62. When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#63. 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
#64. Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#66. Wilshire Boulevard ... It has no smell to it.
Jean Renoir
#67. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#68. There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#69. People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#70. How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#71. There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
Jean Renoir
#72. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#73. It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#76. 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
#77. And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#78. The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#79. About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#80. There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#81. The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.
Jean Renoir
#83. Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
Jean Renoir
#84. To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#85. Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
Jean Renoir
#87. I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
Jean Renoir
#93. The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
Jean Renoir
#95. Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#96. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#98. It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#99. A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
Jean Renoir
#100. 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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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