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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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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 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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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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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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