I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
Edgar Degas' remark in a conversation with the writer Moore (circa 1875), as quoted in Sue Roe "The Private Lives of the Impressionists" (p. 117), 2006.
![I put it [picture A still life of a pear by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture Jupiter and Thetis by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/edgar-degas/i-put-it-picture-a-still-life-of-a-pear-by-edouard-manet-there-on-the-wall-next-to-the.jpg)