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.
I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
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.
The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.
What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!...