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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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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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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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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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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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