Renoir in his artist quotes on painting & Impressionism in France - free resource, Frenchart history

August Renoir in quotes - the artist writes on his own painting art, Impressionism and his several painter-friends in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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In his quotes Renoir reported about related Impressionist artist-friends like Pissaro, Morisot, Bazille, and his several plain-air painting-trips in France and Italy with Monet and Cezanne. He wrote about his life in French Impressionism and his later shift in painting-style into a more classical art approach. Renoir was very clear about his love for colors and his later focus on classical composition.

Renoir experienced a lot of joy in his painting. He rejected any theory about ‘making art’. But still he was very aware of his personal artistic development when he described circa 1883 his growing connection and love for Classical art. From then Impressionism in France started to diminish for him as an inspiration.
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Some selected artist quotes of Renoir - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’What are we supposed to do about these stupid literary people who will never understand that painting is a craft! You make it with materials, not ideas! The ideas come afterwards, when the painting is finished.’ - quote of Renoir, 1874 - reacting on French art-critic Jules Castagnary who proclaimed then the ‘School of Impressionism’ in ‘Le Siècle’

• ’In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.’ - Renoir’s quote, c. 1880: cited in ‘Renoir – his life and work’, F. Fosca, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1975, p. 176

• ’I am still going through an experimental stage. I’m not happy, and I keep scrubbing out and scrubbing out again. I hope this mania will pass… .I’m like the children at school; the clean page has to be filled with good writing, and splash – a mess!’ - quote of Renoir, Nov. 1881, in a letter to his art-seller in France, Durand-Ruel in Paris
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  selection of free art-resources on the French painting-artist Renoir:

  • biographical notes and biography of Renoir, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Renoir, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir
  • images of the painting art of Renoir, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-auguste-renoir
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]