Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist born on February 25, 1841. Renoir contributed to the Impressionist movement and died on December 3, 1919.

I am like a child at school. The new page is always going to be neatly written, and then pouf! . . . a blot. I'm still making blots . . . and I am 40 years old.

On Failure and the Renaissance: A letter to Durand and Ruel 1881