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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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Paris
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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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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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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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