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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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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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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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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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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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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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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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