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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas
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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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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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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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