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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.
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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Paris
France
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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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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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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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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