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I really have a lot of stuff in my head if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
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Paris
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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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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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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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 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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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