124 Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

Everybody has their reasons.

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.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

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.