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Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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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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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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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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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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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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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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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
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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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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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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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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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