Edgar Degas Quotes

"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
(Related: Imagination, Memory, Now)

"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Art, Reflection, Result, Study)

"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
(Related: Art, Accident, Nothing)

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
- Edgar Degas

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Painting)

"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Talent, Difficulty)

"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Art, Vice)

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Art)

"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Idea, Painting)