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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Edgar Degas
Battle, Details, Lines
Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.