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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
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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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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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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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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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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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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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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Art is really a battle.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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