Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas quotes and words of wisdom

"I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead."
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"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
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Interesting Quotes

Never give a sucker an even break.W. C. Fields - US actor (1880 - 1946)

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.Alfred Hitchcock - British movie director (1899 - 1980)