“You need the natural life; I, the artificial.”

— Edgar Degas

À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
Degas, quoted by George Moore, Impressions and Opinions (1891)
These words were spoken, Moore states, to 'a landscape painter'
1876 - 1895

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À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.

1876 - 1895

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