Auguste Renoir Quotes

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

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

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

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

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Art is a sense of magic.

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

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.