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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.

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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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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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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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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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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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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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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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