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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
France
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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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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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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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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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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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Art is really 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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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
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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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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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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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