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Quotes by 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 dont know how, but very difficult when you do.”

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 ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.”

Edgar Degas

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

Edgar Degas

“What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming.”

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

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

Edgar Degas

“Art is vice. You dont marry it legitimately, you rape it.”

Edgar Degas

“In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false”

Edgar Degas

“Monets pictures are always too draughty for me.”

Edgar Degas

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

Edgar Degas

Art is vice. You dont wed it, you rape it.

Edgar Degas

I want to be famous but unknown!

Edgar Degas

Art is not what you see but what you make others see

Edgar Degas

So thats the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Edgar Degas

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

Edgar Degas

We were created to look at one another, werent we

Edgar Degas

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

Edgar Degas

Art isnt something you marry its something you rape.

Edgar Degas

Painting is easy when you dont know how but very difficult when you do.

Edgar Degas