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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
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Lithographer
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Sculptor
Paris
France
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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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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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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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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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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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One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
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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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There is love, and there is work and we have only one heart.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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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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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
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I would like to be famous but unknown.
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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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Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
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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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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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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
Edgar Degas
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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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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