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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
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Paris
France
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Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
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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.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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