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. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It's with my brush that I make love. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir