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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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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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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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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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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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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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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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Art is really 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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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There is no such thing as Intelligence one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
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