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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
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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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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I really have a lot of stuff in my head if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
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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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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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