TRTR(I.2) Portrait of the Artist as a Criminal

[Jed Kelestron]

I can find no source for Cremer's Degas quote, but Thomas Mann cites
it in his introduction ('Dostoevsky — in Moderation') to The Short
Novels of Dostoevsky:

[Regarding Nietzsche] "his personal feelings initiate him into those
of the criminal ... in general all creative originality, all artist
nature in the broadest sense of the word, does the same. It was the
French painter and sculptor Degas who said that an artist must
approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a
crime."