Auguste Renoir Famous Quotes
"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat."
I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion."
"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."
Auguste Renoir Quotations
"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
"Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted."
Chinese Proverb
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."
Samuel Johnson
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
Erich Fromm
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W Somerset Maugham
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Doug Larson
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Buddha
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
Leo C Rosten
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic.
Shimon Peres