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Edgar Degas
French
Artist
About the author
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
#Nothing
#Conversation
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,
French
Artist
#Now
#Imagination
#Memory
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
#Art
#Study
#Result
#Reflection
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,
French
Artist
#Art
#Nothing
#Accident
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
#Painting
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
#Difficulty
#Talent
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
#Art
#Vice
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
#Art
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas,
French
Artist
#Idea
#Painting