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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
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Engraver
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Paris
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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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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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
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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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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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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 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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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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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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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I would like to be famous but unknown.
Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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