Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painting Quotations

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

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

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

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

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.