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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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Lithographer
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Sculptor
Paris
France
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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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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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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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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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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