“The taxi we took had a postcard of a Picasso stuck in the dashboard: inevitably, in Renoir’s company, it seemed. He instantly leaned forward and started to talk about it. The driver, who chatted with hair-raising responsiveness in the Paris traffic, turned out to be a spare-time painter. ‘Only to amuse myself, you understand,’ he said.
“‘Why not?’ said Renoir. ‘Everything interesting is only to amuse yourself.’”
Penelope Gilliatt, “The Ruler of the Game: A Conversation with Jean Renoir”