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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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
Engraver
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Lithographer
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Sculptor
Paris
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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
Edgar Degas
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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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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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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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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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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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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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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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
Edgar Degas
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.
Edgar Degas
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
Edgar Degas
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
Edgar Degas
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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