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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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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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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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Art is really a battle.
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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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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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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