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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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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Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
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