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Edgar Degas Quotes

«Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist) | About: Art, Painting | Keywords: do good, longer, no longer, only when, painter
«Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist) | About: Painting
«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.»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist)
«Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist)
«What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.»
«One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist)
«No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist)
«Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist) | Keywords: legitimately, rape
«In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist)
«Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.»
Author: Edgar Degas (Artist) | Keywords: draughty, Monet