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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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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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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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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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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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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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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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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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