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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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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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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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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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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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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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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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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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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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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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