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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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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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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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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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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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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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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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