Pierre-Auguste Renoir Want Quotations

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.