quotes about Degas

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.
-- Mary Cassatt

Source : Mary Cassatt, Judith A. Barter, Erica E. Hirshler, Art Institute of Chicago (1998). “Mary Cassatt, modern woman”

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

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

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

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Source : Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library
“The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.413
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Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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