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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.
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
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Paris
France
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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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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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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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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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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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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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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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