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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

Giles Auty (1977)

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

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

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

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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