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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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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 really a battle.
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Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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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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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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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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These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
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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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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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