Edgar Degas ,quotes

Only two of my personalities ...

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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The museums are here to teach...

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

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Your pictures would have been...

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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What use is my mind? Granted ...

What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

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The fascinating thing, is not...

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

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You must aim high, not in wha...

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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Conversation in real life is ...

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

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Art' is the same word as 'art...

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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The Dance instills in you som...

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

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These women of mine are decen...

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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the moods of sadness that com...

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

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One must have a high opinion ...

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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Women can never forgive me; t...

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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I felt so insufficiently equi...

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

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I put it [picture "A still li...

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

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There is too much talk and go...

There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

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Do portraits of people in fam...

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

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Once they witnessed one of hi...

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 are some women who shou...

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

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I'll buy a bottle for anyone ...

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

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