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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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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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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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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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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. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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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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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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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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