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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir Giles Auty (1977)

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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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One morning one of us had run out of black; and that was the birth of Impressionism.

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.

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