Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tamaris, France, 1885

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tamaris, France, 1885 | Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted Tamaris, France in 1885.

This art piece is located in Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA.

"There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is the essential. You come to Nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat".

"What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story".

"Landscapes are useful to a figure painter, too; out-of-doors one uses colours one would never think of in the weaker studio light. But landscape painting is a thankless job; you waste half a day for the sake of one hour's painting. You only finish one painting out of ten, because the weather keeps changing. You start work on a sunlight effect and it comes on to rain - or you had a few clouds in the sky, and the wind blows them away. It's always the same story!"

"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".

"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".