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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Draftsperson
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Paris
France
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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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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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Art is really a battle.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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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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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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