Эдгар Дега цитаты

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„Живопись требует небольшой тайны, некоторой неопределённости, некоторой фантазии. Когда вы вкладываете совершенно ясное значение, людям становится скучно.“

„Ничто в искусстве не должно казаться случайным, ни один жест.“

„Только когда он больше не знает, что делает, художник может сделать что-то хорошее.“

„Красивые вещи делаются бессознательно.“

„У всех есть талант в 25. Трудность состоит в том, чтобы иметь его в 50.“

„Всякое искусство есть умение жертвовать.“

„Слишком уж много кругом шума. Можно подумать, что картины делаются, как биржевые цены, в сутолоке стремления к наживе и что художники нуждаются в чужом уме и идеях соседа, чтобы что-нибудь создать, точно так же как дельцы нуждаются в чужих капиталах, чтобы заработать деньги. Вся эта суета горячит ум и искажает верность суждения.“

“Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.”

“I have been singularly hard with myself. I have had to be. You must realize that this is so, since you have, at times, reproached me for it, and were astonished because I had so little confidence in myself. I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. I ask your pardon, then, if, with this damned art as an excuse, I have wounded your noble and intelligent spirit; perhaps even your heart..”

“In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland [Dutch 17th century painters]”

“Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.”

“Vollard, please do not say anything against fashions. Have you ever asked yourself what would happen if there were no fashions? How would women spent their time? What would they have to talk about? Life would become unbearable for us men. Why, if women were to break away from the rules of fashion - fortunately there is no danger - the government would have to step in and take a hand.”

“It is true. There is someone who feels as I do.”