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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
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
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Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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