The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

Edgar Degas
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  2. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. - Vincent Van Gogh

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

  4. Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. - Chuck Klosterman

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More Quotes By Edgar Degas
  1. I know the you who’s in the margins. I know you’re thinking hard about what you want and why— more than some people ever do. I know you can take on a challenge and kick its ass. And I know you’ve tried harder to understand...

  2. It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd had this revelation while eating a donut, and it that wasn't a sign, he didn't know what was.

  3. The creation of art requires descent into the dark.

  4. What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

  5. -It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.- Because the reader changes.- E X A C T L Y

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