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> # Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > To anyone who is not an artist it must seem rather strange that Degas who could do anything - for whom setting down what he saw presented no difficulties at al…

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2. > Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

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3. > Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not o…

[Permalink to quote \#44](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/44/ "Permalink to quote 44")

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