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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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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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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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Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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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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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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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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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.
Edgar Degas
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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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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