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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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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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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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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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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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