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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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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Paris
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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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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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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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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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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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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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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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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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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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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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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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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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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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