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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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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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He once said that he wished 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.
Edgar Degas
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
Edgar Degas
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
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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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I really have a lot of stuff in my head if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
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I should like to be famous and unknown.
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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
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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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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?
Edgar Degas
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
Edgar Degas
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Edgar Degas
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
Edgar Degas
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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