Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Edgar Degas quotes, Edgar Degas sayings, and Edgar Degas proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.Edgar Degas
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There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.Edgar Degas
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.Edgar Degas
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.Edgar Degas
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.Edgar Degas
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.Edgar Degas
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Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression. A species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.Edgar Degas
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Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.Edgar Degas
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Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.Edgar Degas
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.Edgar Degas
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.Edgar Degas
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Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.Edgar Degas
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The frame is the reward of the artist.Edgar Degas
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The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.Edgar Degas
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It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree and so should we.Edgar Degas
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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.Edgar Degas
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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.Edgar Degas
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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.Edgar Degas
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.Edgar Degas
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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.Edgar Degas
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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.Edgar Degas
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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.Edgar Degas
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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.Edgar Degas
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas
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