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Edgar Degas

Birthday: July 19, 1834
Deathday: September 27, 1917
Category: French Artist
Type: Artist
National: French

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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

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