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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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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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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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