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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

— Edgar Degas The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas (1961)

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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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