What did Pierre-Auguste Renoir mean by: You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France Copy
+ When I’ve painted a woman’s bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bottom, Painting, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
+ One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Black, Color, Morning, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
+ To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Good Friend, Language, Portraiture, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
+ I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Children, Innocence, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
+ I’ve never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Drawing, One Day, Painting, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
+ There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Art, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
+ I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it’s right. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painting, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
+ There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Enough, 0 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painter · France
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France