Degas Picture File

Famous quotes containing the words degas, picture and/or file:

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

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)