33 Quotes by Jean Renoir

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons.

Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence of man’s fulfillment.

The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.

Painters know that material needs are relative; and that the satisfactions of the mind are absolute.

Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.