Auguste Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them. — Auguste Comte

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci] — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting ... Drawing contains everything, except the hue — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature — Auguste Rodin

People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly. — Auguste Escoffier

Nobody does good to men with impunity. — Auguste Rodin

Philippe-Auguste was an ugly child, with uncombed hair and dirt all over him, and the face of a cretin. — Guy De Maupassant

Good food is the basis of true happiness — Auguste Escoffier

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Mathematical Analysis is ... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. — Auguste Comte

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive. — Auguste Rodin

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others. — Auguste Rodin

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I've spent my life making blunders. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind. — Auguste Comte

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws. — Auguste Comte

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced. — Auguste Comte

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The artist has only to trust his eyes. — Auguste Rodin

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite. — Auguste Escoffier

A hundred years ago, Auguste Comte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of. — Michio Kaku

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. — Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

Auguste Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers. — John Stuart Mill

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. — Auguste Rodin

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it ... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see. — Auguste Rodin

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy. — Auguste Comte

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. — Auguste Escoffier

The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies. — Auguste Comte

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Damen held himself very still. This easy way of speaking of Auguste was new, and he didn't want to disturb it.
After a moment, Laurent said, 'He would have liked you.'
'Even after I started courting his little brother?' said Damen carefully. — C.S. Pacat

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred. — Auguste Rodin

God, the king of artists, was clumsy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended. — Auguste Rodin

From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance? — Auguste Laurent

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry ... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry
an aberration which is happily almost impossible
it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. — Auguste Comte

You must always work. — Auguste Rodin

The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments — Charles-Auguste De Beriot

The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result, he will find it necessary not merely to make use of the freshest and finest goods, but also to exercise the most scrupulous care in their preparation, for, in cooking, care is half the battle. — Auguste Escoffier

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period. — Auguste Rodin

Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence. — Auguste Rodin

As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future ... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion! — Auguste Rodin

I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words. — Auguste Rodin

Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader. — Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools. — Auguste Rodin

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. — Auguste Comte

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling. — Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest. — Auguste Rodin

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Auguste had fought with honour. He had
been the one honourable man on a
treacherous field. — C.S. Pacat

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling. — Auguste Rodin

It's with my brush that I make love. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about? — Auguste Rodin

If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well. — Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Better gray than garishness. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation. — Auguste Comte

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton. — Auguste Comte

Patience is also a form of action. — Auguste Rodin

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world. — Auguste Escoffier

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. — Auguste Piccard

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Egyptian duck is a dangerous animal: one snap of its beak and you are infected with Egyptology for life. — Auguste Mariette

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? — Auguste Comte

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

He's private about it. You saw his
personal training ring, inside the palace.
He'll go a few rounds with some of the
guard occasionally, with Rochert, with
me
laid me out a few times. He's not as
good as his brother was, but you only
have to be half as good as Auguste to be
ten times better than everyone else. — C.S. Pacat

In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me. — Auguste Rodin

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. — Auguste Rodin

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity. — Auguste Comte

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir