1. Renoir - Noun
2. Renoir - Proper noun
French impressionist painter (1841-1919)
Source: WordNetJean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing. Peter Greenaway
I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy. Paul Cézanne
Music and painting should never be literary, a very subtle distinction according to Renoir. As soon as I try to represent an individual, their physiognomy and attitudes, I become a literary artist. Berthe Morisot
Would you do us the great favour, you and Mademoiselle Geneviève, of coming to dine next Thursday? Monet will be there, Renoir also.. Berthe Morisot
It used to be said of a woman: why she's a Velázquez infanta! Now it is said: she's a Renoir blonde! I have no doubt that, in the future, it will be proclaimed: she's as exuberant as a Delaunay, as noble as a Le Fauconnier, as beautiful as a Braque or Picasso. Jean Metzinger
Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor. Camille Pissarro