Pierre-Auguste Renoir: "It's with my brush that I make love"

"People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance".

"Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art".

"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion".

"Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art".

"If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself".

"I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that".

"Why should beauty be suspect?"

"Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman".

"It's with my brush that I make love".

"White does not exist in nature".

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

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

"About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw".

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

"You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time".

"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature".

"There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable".

"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".