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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

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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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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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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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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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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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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.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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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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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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