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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
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Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes 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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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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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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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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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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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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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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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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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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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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