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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
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
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Paris
France
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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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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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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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
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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 critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
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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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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
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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 delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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