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Painter Quotes by Edgar Degas
- People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and…
- People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
- The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing…
- Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
- Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into…
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