that Foreigner song keeps running through my head
Feels like the first time,
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“He will remain, I believe, a widely popular
painter because his work is about pleasure. But
pleasure in what, exactly? Or, to put it another
way, what does Renoir's way of painting,”
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“what is banished from Renoir's paintings is any sign of
anguish, any possibility or consequence of contingency. He often said that he painted for his
own pleasure and to give pleasure. Yet for Renoir the precondition of pleasure was the fantasy of a world without edges, without sharpness
or conflict,”
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“Pleasure for him
was -not for the taking; it had to be ubiquitous
and omnipresent. You have to embellish, he
said; paintings should be friendly, pleasurable,
and pretty. And about this, as he grew older, he
became fanatical:”
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“He will remain, I believe, a widely popular
painter because his work is about pleasure. But
pleasure in what, exactly? Or, to put it another
way, what does Renoir's way of painting,”
-----
“what is banished from Renoir's paintings is any sign of
anguish, any possibility or consequence of contingency. He often said that he painted for his
own pleasure and to give pleasure. Yet for Renoir the precondition of pleasure was the fantasy of a world without edges, without sharpness
or conflict,”
-----
“Pleasure for him
was -not for the taking; it had to be ubiquitous
and omnipresent. You have to embellish, he
said; paintings should be friendly, pleasurable,
and pretty. And about this, as he grew older, he
became fanatical:”