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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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 fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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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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I really have a lot of stuff in my head if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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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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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
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