Pierre Auguste RenoirThinkers

Art is not all about imagination. In fact, the artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

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

Art is a domain whose basis is always irregularity. Regularity, order, and desire for perfection always destroy it.

Art is inherently unable to be reduced to a formula.

Painting is a field in which the simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

Painting is a very different in the sutdio and in the wild. To paint out-of-doors, where there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, one is carried away by the light and can't see what one is doing.

The Painting 1s 2urpose is to decorate the walls: as such it has to be as rich as possible.

The Painting is a thing you don't talk about, you look at it.

The Painting is a thing whereby what is essential is what cannot be explained.

The Work of art should seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away.

The Work of art is the current which the artist puts forth that sweeps you along in his passion.

The Work of art's most important element is something that cannot be explained.

The Work of art must first be indescribable, and second, inimitable.