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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Paris
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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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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
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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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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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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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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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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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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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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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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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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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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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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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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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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
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