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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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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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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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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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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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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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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