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The pain passes but the beauty remains.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.

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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!

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People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

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They've found fault with me enough, in all conscience, for putting violet shadows on bodies.

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