Renoir Quotes

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: You're rather modest for an actress.
AndrÚe Heuschling: Actress doesn't mean whore.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: It's us... old people, the infirm who they should send to the front, in the mud and trenches.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: You want to make yourself useful? Go put a necklace on her. Take the emerald one.
Jean Renoir: [approaches a posing Andree]The boss wants you to wear this.
AndrÚe Heuschling: No introduction first?
Jean Renoir: Forgive me.
AndrÚe Heuschling: You're Jean? I saw a painting of you.
Jean Renoir: I saw a painting of you, too.
AndrÚe Heuschling: He always makes me too fat.
Jean Renoir: He makes me look like a girl.

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[takes a fruit from a bowl in the studio and bites into it]Jean Renoir: You just bit into one of my father's models. I understand. Renoir's paintings make me want to eat them too.
AndrÚe Heuschling: You want to eat me?

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: She won't come anymore, will she? Were you a gentleman with her?
Jean Renoir: Did I need your permission?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: All women, whether they be a whore or a queen, deserve the same respect.

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AndrÚe Heuschling: I cost ten francs.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: I need living, breathing material. What interests me, is skin... the velvety texture of a young girl's skin.

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Coco Renoir: Show me your tits.
AndrÚe Heuschling: Are you nuts?
Coco Renoir: Show me.
AndrÚe Heuschling: Why should I show you?
Coco Renoir: You show them to the boss.
AndrÚe Heuschling: That's different. That's for art.

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Coco Renoir: What's the war like?
Jean Renoir: It's war...

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Jean Renoir: If you told me what you wanted...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: You can't explain a painting, you have to feel it. Go see Titian's courtesans at the Louvre. If those don't make you want to caress them, then you've understood nothing at all. [Jean leaves]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Where are you going?
Jean Renoir: To the Louvre!

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AndrÚe Heuschling: I paint like a child.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: That's a good thing. My whole life, I tried to paint like a child.

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AndrÚe Heuschling: I'm not spending my life with a plate painter.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Titian would have worshiped her. I'd give my right arm for her tits.

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Pierre Renoir: Andree said you were going to make films?
Jean Renoir: No. Nothing's been decided.
Pierre Renoir: That reassures me. The cinema isn't for us French. It's entertainment for the masses. Our artistic heritage is too old, too heavy.

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Jean Renoir: [his father has suffered the torments of arthritis in his hands]Papa. You can't take any more.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The pain passes, Jean. But beauty remains.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: [Jean has re-enlisted in WWI]Go get yourself pumped full of lead, imbecile! Or if you prefer, go kill some good German fellow who smokes a pipe. If you think it'll change something. [long pause]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: You, too... you can't live without her either.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: You can't explain a painting, you have to feel it.

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