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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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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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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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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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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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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