Edgar Degas Quotes

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

Art, Difficult, Easy

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

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.
Edgar Degas

Far, Memory, Copy

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

Art, Marry, Vice

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

Good, Knows, Longer

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

Everyone, Talent, Difficulty

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

Great, Art, Study

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

True, Give, Idea

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

Art, Nothing, Same

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

Nothing, Charming, Delightful

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 19, 1834

Died: September 27, 1917

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