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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
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Paris
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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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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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