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Edgar Degas Quotes
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Type: Artist Quotes Category: French Artist Quotes Date of Birth: July 19, 1834 Date of Death: September 27, 1917 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Edgar Degas Related Authors: Paul Cezanne Henri Matisse Robert Delaunay Francis Picabia Paul Gauguin Camille Pissarro Edouard Manet Marc Chagall |
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. Edgar Degas Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Edgar Degas In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. 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 No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. Edgar Degas 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 Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. Edgar Degas |
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