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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
Edgar Degas
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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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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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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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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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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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I really have a lot of stuff in my head if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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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 would like to be famous but unknown.
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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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