Auguste Renoir Quotes

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

I feel that art is beyond language.

I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.

I don't want to tell fans what to think or what to believe or whatever, but at the same time, some things just hit you very personally.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.

It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when taking a picture. Very often it doesn't mean anything because it depends on who's looking at the picture more than the content of the picture itself.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.

No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many image models that some people have given up trying to keep track of me. But others have only one or two ways of doing things and are successful with that.

It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.