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| A painting is an artificial work existing outside nature and it requires as much cunning as the perpetration of a crime. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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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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| Edgar Degas |
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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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| Edgar Degas |
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| One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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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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| Edgar Degas |
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| Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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| Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me. |
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| Edgar Degas |
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