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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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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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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
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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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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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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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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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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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