“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
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French painter and sculptor 1841–1919

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