I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
Edgar DegasYou have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
Edgar Degas