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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
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
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Paris
France
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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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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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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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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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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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