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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
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Paris
France
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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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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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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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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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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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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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