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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
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Paris
France
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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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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