To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects;...

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects;...

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how...

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how...

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went...

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went...

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint,...

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint,...

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind...

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind...

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals...

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals...

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others...

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others...

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't...

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...