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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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Draftsperson
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Paris
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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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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Art is really a battle.
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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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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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