Pain passes, but beauty remains.

La douleur passe, la beauté reste.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Born in Limoges in 1841, Renoir earned the title painter of happiness. His Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette captures dappled sunlight on dancing figures, embodying Impressionism's most joyful spirit.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Other Quotes

Why should art not be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

I arrange my subject as I want, then I begin to paint it like a child.

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One swallow does not make a spring.

-- Aristotle

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

Why should art not be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I invent nothing; I rediscover.

-- Auguste Rodin