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I would like to be famous but unknown.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Paris
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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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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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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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