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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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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I would like 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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One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
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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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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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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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