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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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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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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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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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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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I should like to be famous and 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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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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