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Nathalia Brodskaya,Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    In this way I am accumulating plans which would take ten lifetimes to carry out. In six weeks time I shall drop them without regret in order to regain and never more to leave my home.
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    Degas was the only painter of his generation who took photography seriously
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    When the Franco-Prussian war began in 1870, Degas enlisted in the French National Guard artillery. It was during his service in the army that he learned he might lose his eyesight, which would have a tragic impact on his life.
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    they are individualised, they have character, and, above all, they are not posing, but, instead, are engrossed in the music. Before Edgar Degas, nothing like this had ever been done before
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    Like Manet and the Impressionists, he rejects subject and literary narrative, but in his own paintings there is always something happening
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    one senses an attentive observer of human psychology.
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    the 1850s, Degas started doing portraits and self-portraits. From the very beginning in Degas’ portraits
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    the musician Georges Bizet, who had not yet composed Carmen

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  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    Go on working calmly, and keep to this path”
  • b4106012510has quoted4 years ago
    Draw lines … Lots of lines, whether from memory or from life
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