Edgar Degas Quotes

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

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

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

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

» Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

» No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

» One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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

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

» 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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