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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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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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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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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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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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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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