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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
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Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
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Paris
France
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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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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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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Art is really a battle.
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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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