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Edgar Degas Quotes: Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
         

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.


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Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.



Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.



A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.



You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.



Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?



Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.



The true traveler never arrives.

The true traveler never arrives.



No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.



Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.



He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.





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You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.



Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?



If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.

If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.



Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.



I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.



If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.



I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.



The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products.

The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products.



Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness.

Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness.



Everything is as it should be.

Everything is as it should be.




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