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I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

— Edgar Degas

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According to Sickert, Degas had said this quote to him in 1885

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He [ Corot ] is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.

What a pity we allowed ourselves to be called Impressionists.

Drawing is not the same as form; it is a way of seeing form.

Degas Dance Drawing (1935)

You need the natural life; I, the artificial.

I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.

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