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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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Paris
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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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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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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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Art is really a battle.
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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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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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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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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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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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