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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.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
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Engraver
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Paris
France
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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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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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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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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Art is really a battle.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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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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