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Degas Quotes

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
School, Degas, Admire

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

Mary Cassatt
Sight, Artistic Life, Degas
Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Visionaries, Degas, Landscape

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

Max Liebermann
Creating, Looks, Degas

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!

Paul Gauguin
Degas, Tubs, Chaste
Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

Paul Valery
Degas, Way, Bears

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