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Edgar Degas Quotes - Page 5

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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Edgar Degas
Expression, Giving, Body
Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

Edgar Degas
Artist, Two, Imagination
Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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