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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
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Lithographer
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Paris
France
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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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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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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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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
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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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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
Edgar Degas
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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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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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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