124 Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

God, the king of artists, was clumsy.