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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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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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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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