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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
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Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
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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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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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 delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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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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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 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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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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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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A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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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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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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What a horrible thing yellow is.
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