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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
Drawer
Engraver
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Paris
France
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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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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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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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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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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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Even in front of nature one must compose.
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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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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 seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
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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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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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