Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I don't believe in rules. I believe in freedom.

The only way to be a good artist is to be a good person.

I don't paint for the critics. I paint for myself.

The most important thing is to be honest.

I don't want to be a master. I want to be a student.

The only thing that matters is to live in the present moment.

I don't paint with my eyes, I paint with my soul.

The most important thing is to love what you do.

I don't believe in perfection. I believe in beauty.

The only thing that matters is to be alive.

For me a picture should be a pleasant thing, something you want to hang on your wall.

The artist who uses the least possible of what is called his 'freedom' is the one who is most free.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

What I like in painting is the ceremony, the ritual of it.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Success is the child of audacity.

The only ancient writers who interest me are those who speak of the human heart.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life for us to fabricate still more.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.