Best Quotes by Edgar Degas (Top 10)
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I want to be famous but unknown!
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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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.
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My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said.
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C'est vrai. Voilテδ。 quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).
Edgar Degas