Auguste Renoir Quotes

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

My works tends to be erotic.

I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

I suppose everything I do has sexual undertones, but I don't set out to make everything about sex. My clothes are more about sensuality. What I do is dress and beautify the body. My feeling is, if you have something beautiful, then show it.

I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly finished." I've got it there. And then there's that whole other phase of moving on to properly amp up the sentences and sometimes to move stuff around as well.

I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

I've never seen anythin' sexier in my life, and she's not even naked yet.

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.