Artist Quote by Edgar Degas

I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a…

— Edgar Degas

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

— Katharine Hepburn

“They drove up Third Avenue so that they might see the famous Stuyvesant pear tree on the corner of Thirteenth Street. Again for the…

— Anya Seton

“Pears can just fuck off too. 'Cause they're gorgeous little beasts, but they're ripe for half an hour, and you're never there. They're like…

— Eddie Izzard

“A pear, an apple, and a banana in a basket on a table isn’t art, no matter how skillfully painted. But it is something…

— Jarod Kintz

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the…

— Wallace Stevens

“The garden of God is full of ripen fruits.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Art is like fruit, and every tree is known by its fruit. Fruit reveals a lot about the tree from which it falls.”

— Anonymous

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

— Masaoka Shiki

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

— Alexander Pope