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"20 Edgar Degas Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 July 1834. Died: 27 September 1917 | Artist |
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art What See Make
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Painting Easy Who Difficult
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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.

Aim High Going Future
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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

Have Confined Black White
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The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
Artist Sees Others
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Man Certain Moment Effort
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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.

Art Spontaneous I Reflection
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Only Longer Knows Painter
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

You Have High Conception
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Everyone Talent Twenty-five Difficulty
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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.

Very Well Copy Sees
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting Idea Give True
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
Great Patience Called Hard
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There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
There-is Live Work One-heart
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A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

Picture First Product Imagination
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Delightful Thing Conversation Specialists
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I want to be famous but unknown!

Want Famous Unknown
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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.

Must Same-subject Time Hundred-times
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting Easy Know-how Very
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art Vice You Legitimately
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Edgar Degas Quotes & Sayings