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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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Paris
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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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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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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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