Forain s'etait construit un hotel, et fil installer le telephone presque nouveau. Il voulut d'abord 'epater' Degas. Il l'invite a diner, previent un compere, qui, pendant le diner, appelle Forain a l'appareil. Quelque mots echange, Forain revient. Degas lui dit: 'C'est ca le telephone? On vous sonne et vous y allez.'

I would ask him to give me his definition of drawing. 'You don't know a thing about it,' he would always end up saying. And without fail he would go on to this…

All Paris knew him as a fighter, a recluse, guarding his privacy with cruel, crushing words. The habitues of the Paris boulevards defended themselves against h…

I have often heard Degas say that in painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements…

'This new form of communication could have some utility.'