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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
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Poet
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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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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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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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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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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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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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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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
Edgar Degas
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.
Edgar Degas
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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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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Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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