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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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Paris
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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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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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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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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
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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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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 vice. One does not wed it, one rapes 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 frame is the reward of the artist.
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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