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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
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
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Sculptor
Paris
France
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good 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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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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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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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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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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
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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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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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