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

Way Enough Seeing Bears Wide Interpretation Degas

Author:Paul Valery

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

Chaste Tubs Degas

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

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

Firsts Masters Sight Artistic Turning Points Artistic Life Degas

Book:Cassatt and her circle: selected letters

Source: Cassatt and her circle: selected letters

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

Looks Masters Creating Composition Degas

Author:Max Liebermann

“Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.”

People Real Values Pleasure Painting Wine Glasses Sensual Bottles Categories Strokes Cellars Real Value Sensual Pleasure Degas

Author:Serena Sutcliffe

“Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.”

Order Lines Greater Achieve Movement Balance Perfection Repeats Dancer Again And Again Repetition Motifs Degas

Author:Kenneth Clark

“Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry.”

Mean Use Used Artist Records Century Design Photography Invention Frightened Accurate Composition Formal Nineteenth Century Symmetry Snapshots Degas

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.”

Done Light Girl Next Sun Gone Air Century Painting Wall Europe Mad Surface Brown Thrown Flats Laughed Ballet Primitive Sentimental Sobriety Signatures Bathing Gravy Vivacity Degas

Book:Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

“There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.”

Challenges Painting Roots Marketing Selling Beer Similarity Mug Root Beer Degas

Author:A. Alfred Taubman

“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.”

Made Sometimes Would Be Together Months Armor Furious Together Again Chinks Degas

Book:Mary Cassatt, modern woman

Source: Mary Cassatt, modern woman

“I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.”

Littles Real Stories Wanted Models Convinced Real Life Dancer Sculpture Belle Degas

Author:Cathy Marie Buchanan