Renoir Quotes:

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

- Grant Achatz

source: Interview with Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. September 27, 2010.

topic: People, Renoir, Beckett, Gaudi

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

- Peter Greenaway

topic: Ideas, People, Renoir

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.78, University of Chicago Press

topic: Directors, Renoir, Entertaining

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

- Robert Henri

source: Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Love, Character, People, Renoir

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.

- Hirokazu Koreeda

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Morning, Memories, Class, Renoir, Kurosawa

The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.

- Roger Housden

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Humble, Humility, Long, Impressionists, Great French

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

- Cyril Connolly

topic: Book, Writing, Paint, Renoir

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

- Orson Welles

source: "The Orson Welles Story". Documentary, 1982.

topic: Animal, Garden, Vision, Renoir

Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.

- Claude Monet

topic: Children, Giving Up, Wife, Renoir

I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Girl, Drawing, Air, Renoir

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

- Lenny Breau

topic: Music, Piano, Doe, Impressionists, Renoir

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

- Bob Dylan

source: "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

topic: Country, Song, Fashion, Renoir

I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes, you can see his working patterns. It's like going to a museum and seeing a Renoir drawing. You want to see their work and you want to see how they put it together. For me to see that in animation is really fresh, it's really exciting, it's really original.

- Bill Plympton

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Artist, Drawing, Museums, Renoir

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

- Diego Rivera

source: Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Roots, Mexican, Renoir

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

- Mike Svob

topic: Simple, Looks, Different, Monet, Renoir

I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.

- Claude Monet

topic: Dream, Couple, Done, Bathing, Tableau

The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.

- Ella Leya

source: Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.131, Sourcebooks, Inc.

topic: Dirty, Humanity, Shadow, Impressionism, Chiaroscuro

The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.

- Orson Welles

source: "The Orson Welles Story". Documentary, 1982.

topic: Thinking, Long, People, Renoir

My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

- Jean Cocteau

source: Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

topic: Color, Tiny, Use, Matisse, Renoir