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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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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Paris
France
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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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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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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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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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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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
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These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
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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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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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