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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Draftsperson
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Paris
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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The frame is the reward of the artist.
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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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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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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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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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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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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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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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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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