A Quote by Edgar Degas

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Edgar Degas

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Art Art Is Does Vice

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Edgar Degas
French - Artist
July 19, 1834 - September 27, 1917

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Lawrence Durrell

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

George Harrison

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

George R. R. Martin

I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, which is what I think Vice's calling card has been, CNN's digital properties reach far more young men on a weekly basis than Vice does.

Jeff Zucker

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

Malcolm X

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

Fernando Pessoa

The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman or a child or physically hits a child. When that period of innocence is raped - that person loses something that they can never get it back. To me when innocence is raped, that is the sickest and filthiest thing.

Kelly Cutrone

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Seth Godin

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Hesiod

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Robert Motherwell

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

Alice Walton

Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

Rosa Bonheur

Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.