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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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Draftsperson
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Paris
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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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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