Edgar Degas Quotes

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Edgar Degas

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• One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Up
  • Question
  • Wonder

• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Home
  • Want
  • Know

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Power

• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Nothing
  • Common Sense

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Want
  • Feel Good

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Science
  • Idea
  • Speaking

• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Time
  • Real
  • Documentary

• Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Believe

• The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Work
  • Family
  • Nature

• For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • People
  • Black

• Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Good
  • May
  • Success

• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea