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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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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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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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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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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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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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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