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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
Edgar Degas
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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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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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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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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 secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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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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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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