Nancy Dyer

“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.”
― Richard Rhodes

“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

“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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