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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.

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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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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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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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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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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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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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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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There is too much talk and gossip pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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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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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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