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I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

— Edgar Degas Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927)

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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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