The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Auteur: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Quote More from Pierre-Auguste Renoir “You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat.” “There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufactur…” “I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.” “We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.”