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Art is really a battle.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Draftsperson
Drawer
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Paris
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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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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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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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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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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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