Frasi di Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Data di nascita: 25. Febbraio 1841
Data di morte: 3. Dicembre 1919
Altri nomi:Пьер Огюст Ренуар
Pierre-Auguste Renoir [pjɛʁ oˈgyst ʁəˈnwaʁ] è stato un pittore francese uno tra i massimi esponenti dell'impressionismo.
Frasi Pierre-Auguste Renoir
„Ogni tanto, bisogna tentare cose superiori alle proprie forze.“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
da una lettera all'amico Paul Bérard
„I studied a good deal in the museum at Naples; the Pompeian paintings are extremely interesting from every aspect. So I am staying in the sun – not to paint portraits but while I am warming myself and looking hard at things I hope I will have acquired some of the grandeur and simplicity of the old masters. Raphael didn't work out-of-doors, but he studied the sunlight all the same – his frescoes are full of it. So, by looking around outside, I have finished by seeing only the broad harmonies, and am no longer preoccupied with the little details, which only extinguish the sunlight, instead of increasing its brilliance. I hope therefore, when I get back to Paris, to produce something which will be the outcome of all these general studies, and to give you the benefit of them [in a letter written during his three-weeks-stay, working with Paul Cezanne at l'Estaque, near Marseille]“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
p. 169 in a letter to madame Charpentier, l'Estaque, January 1882
„.. I have suddenly become a traveler, and I am afflicted with a fever for seeing Raphael's. So I am in the process of swallowing up Italy. Now, I will be able to say straight out: 'Yes, sir. I have seen some Raphael's, I have seen Venice the Fair, etc'.“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
p. 159 : in a letter to madame Charpentier, Autumn 1881
„If I was accused of neglecting my art, or sacrificing my ideas for the sake of stupid ambition, then I would understand the critics; but as that isn't the case, there is nothing to be said. I sent a picture to the Salon for purely commercial reasons. Anyway, it is like some medicines – even if it does no good, it does no harm. [other impressionist artists then refused to send in their work to the Salon]“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
p. 128 : in a letter to art-dealer Durand-Ruel, March 1881
„You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
p. 176 : Renoir's remarks to Vollard, criticizing landscape painting in a direct way, because of loosing composition.
„I wanted to tell you that in about 1883 there occurred a kind of break in my work. I had got to the end of 'Impressionism', and I had come to the conclusion that I didn't either how to paint or how to draw. In short, I had come to a dead end.“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
p. 175 : Renoir's remark to Vollard.
„You know how I feel painting a skin which won't take the light well. And on top of that, it was fashionable at the time for women to be pale, so [https://upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Renoir_-_madame-robert-de-bonnieres-1889. jpg%21PinterestLarge. jpg Madame de Bonnieres] was as pale as wax, you may be sure. I kept saying to myself 'If only she could get a good steak inside her, just once!'.... and her hands! She put them in water before the sitting, to accentuate their whiteness... Just imagine! I come across one of the most charming women it is possible to meet, and she doesn't want to have any colour in her cheeks!“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
p. 175 : (1886) Renoir's remark to Vollard [Renoir had been commissioned to portray [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Renoir_-_madame-robert-de-bonnieres-1889.jpg%21PinterestLarge.jpg Madame Robert de Bonnieres] in 1886].
„The pain passes but the beauty remains.“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
„It was a perpetual holiday – and what an assortment of people. You could still enjoy yourself in those days! Machinery didn't take up the whole of life; there was time for living, and we made the most of it... I found as many magnificent girls to paint as I wanted; in those days one wasn't reduced to following a little model around for an hour and then being treated as a disgusting old man at the end of it.“
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
p. 28 : Renoir's quote to Vollard referring to the Isle Grenouillere, where he painted in 1869, together with Claude Monet.
