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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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Sculptor
Paris
France
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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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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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Art is really a battle.
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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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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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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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