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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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