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Tag: Degas

Posted on April 6, 2005October 13, 2020

Poems are Made of Words

This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series SAIC Class Notes

Poems are Made of Words

Class notes, SAIC, 1991

At a dinner party, Dore Ashton on  Degas – complaining about working on a sonnet – he had lots of ideas, but…

Paul Valerie – “Poems are made, not of ideas, but of words.”

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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 their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

— Edgar Degas

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