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• Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
  -- Coco Chanel...
• Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape. -- Edgar Degas (1834-1900)
• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. -- Edgar Dega
• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists!
  One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. -- Edgar Dega...
• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
  -- Edgar Dega...
• How many Columbia students -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Seventy-six, one to change the light bulb, fifty to protest the light bulb's right to not change, and twenty-five to hold a counter-protest....
• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times.
  In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. -- Edgar Dega...
• The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd
  I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces....