124 Quotes 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!

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.