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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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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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