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I should like to be famous and unknown.

Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
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