124 Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

I've spent my life making blunders.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

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.

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.

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.