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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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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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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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.
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Art is really a battle.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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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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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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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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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 vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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