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Edgar Degas

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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.


— Edgar Degas


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I want to be famous but unknown!


— Edgar Degas


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Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.


— Edgar Degas


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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.


— 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.


— Edgar Degas


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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.


— Edgar Degas


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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.


— 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.


— Edgar Degas


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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.


— Edgar Degas


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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.


— Edgar Degas


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Did you know about Edgar Degas?

He was also a collector of Japanese prints whose compositional principles influenced his work as did the vigorous realism of popular illustrators such as Daumier and Gavarni. Recognized as an important artist in his lifetime Degas is now considered "one of the founders of Impressionism". Degas began to paint early in life.

He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Edgar Degas (US /deɪˈɡɑː/ or UK /ˈdeɪɡɑː/; French: [ilɛʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡɑʁ dəɡɑ]; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings sculptures prints and drawings. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation.

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