Edgar Degas

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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Edgar Degas
art
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas
art
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Edgar Degas
art
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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
imagination
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Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape.

Edgar Degas
art , something , you
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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.

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movement , consoles , leaves , tree , did
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

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kind , success , indistinguishable
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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.

Edgar Degas
art , less , spontaneous
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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
must , same , subject
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

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everyone , talent , difficulty
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Edgar Degas
delightful , thing , conversation
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Edgar Degas
only , he , longer
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Edgar Degas
painting , must , give