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Quote by Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You dont marry it legitimately, you rape it. - Edgar

Art is vice. You dont marry it legitimately, you rape it. – Edgar Degas

Other quotes by Edgar Degas

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas

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Imagination
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Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

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Art
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Wherever art appears, life disappears. – Robert Motherwell

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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemys country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good. – Sun Tzu

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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