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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.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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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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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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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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 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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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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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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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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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