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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
France
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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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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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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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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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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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