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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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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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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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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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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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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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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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