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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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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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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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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape 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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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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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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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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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