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I should like to be famous and unknown.

Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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Art is really a battle.
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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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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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