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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

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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas

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Professionalism
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Edgar Degas
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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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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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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. – Jon Bon Jovi

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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. – Mary Baker Eddy

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I dont know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. Ive gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars. – Jerry Saltz

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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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