Degas Began

Famous quotes containing the words degas and/or began:

“What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.”
—Edgar Degas (1834–1917)

“Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife’s nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. “Yes,” she answered, “the figure of a fool.””
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)