"The ones [compliments] I value most came from Edgar Degas who said he was happy to see my work becoming more and more pure."
— Edgar Degas

January 1, 1970

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Quote of Camille Pissarro, Paris, 4 May 1883, in a letter to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien, ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, pp. 29-30