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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
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Draftsperson
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Paris
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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.
Edgar Degas
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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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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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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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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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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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.
Edgar Degas
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?
Edgar Degas
There is too much talk and gossip pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
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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 fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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