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On the one hand, we're trying to produce a very well-rounded, balanced and varied selection of Degas because this is the first major Degas exhibition there's been in Atlanta. At the same time we're trying to tell the story about the history of Degas in America.


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KELLY JONES One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,
'the way one commits a crime.
ELIZABETH BISHOP There really is a perception that if you know the ballet studies, you know Degas. Actually, nothing ...
EDWARD SAYWELL There really is a perception that if you know the ballet studies, you know Degas, ... Actually, noth...
EDWARD SAYWELL I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture ...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN Masterpieces of world art cannot be hostages in legal disputes. Just look at the list of the paintin...
BORIS GRYZLOV What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO In a way, the show is as much about Paul Sachs as it is about Edgar Degas. Indeed, the two are inext...
EDWARD SAYWELL I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.
KIERA CASS He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Don't tug your ear with anyone else. That's mine.
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The Q...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his...
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Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own hori...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS ...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fair...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
ALEXANDRE DUMAS We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great diffic...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rock...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"

"Possibly nothing at all; the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS ...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS На този свят няма нито щастие, нито нещастие, има само с...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS We encourage the children's expression through playful creativity.
JOELLE DUMAS ¿ la claire fontaine. You see the world as children are forming.
JOELLE DUMAS Luego, dirigiendo una postrer mirada sobre aquel apuesto joven, que tendría lo más veinticinco añ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It?s a challenge to yourself, especially as I get older; your eyes get worse.
RALPH DUMAS Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse, There music...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE