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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

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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
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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