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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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Poet
Sculptor
Paris
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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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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
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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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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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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 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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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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We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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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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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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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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