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Quote by Edgar Degas

“I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.”

Quote by Edgar Degas

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A compilation of personal and professional exchanges that delve into the complexities of human connection and introspection. more

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Edgar Degas was a prominent French Impressionist painter known for his unique style and depictions of dance, horse racing, and other themes. His works hold significant地位 in art history, particularly for his detailed portrayals of female figures and dynamic poses. more

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“You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.”

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“I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.”

Found Style Havens Glad Bored Bored To Death

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“Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Long Time Finished Long Time Ago

Book:Degas [exposition]

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“I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.”

Littles Has Beens Might Wife Misery My Wife Finished Mortals Little Things

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“One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.”

Art Subjects Movement Ten Hundred Accidents

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“An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.”

Spirit Artist Crime Approach Criminals Commit

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“The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.”

Ifs Wells Mean Art Desire Strong Teach Weak Museums Emancipation

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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.”

Crime Add Vices Accents Malice Untrue Knavery

Book:The shop-talk of Edgar Degas

Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas

“Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.”

People Attitude Familiar Typical Portraits

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“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”

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