“The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.”

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

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French artist 1834–1917

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