About Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Pierre-Auguste Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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.
I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a si...
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
