Nancy Dyer

“When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.”
― Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir