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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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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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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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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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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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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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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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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