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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Paris
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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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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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There is too much talk and gossip pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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