Auguste Renoir Quotes

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Form follows beauty.

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Only ugliness is obscene.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

I really thing that people more and more want beautiful things about them.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.