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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Paris
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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 painting pretty clothes.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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?
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
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Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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There is too much talk and gossip pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
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