Pierre-Auguste Renoir Quotes about Painting

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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