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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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 painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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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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Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
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