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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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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Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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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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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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