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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Edgar Degas
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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.
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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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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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Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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