Pierre Auguste Renoir Quotes

They were madmen, but they had in them that little flame which never dies.

It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another. The point of view is not the same, any more than are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters’ techniques.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

I have a horror of the word ‘flesh’, which has become so shopworn. Why not ‘meat’ while they’re about it? What I like is skin, a young girl’s skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.