Edgar Degas Quotes

• Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

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• It is all very well to copy what you see; it is much better to draw what you see only in memory.

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• Art cannot be made with an intent to please.

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• Drawing is not the form; it is the way of seeing the form.

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• Aren’t all beautiful things made by renunciation?

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• It is essential to do the same subject over again, ten times, a hundred times.

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• Art does not expand, it repeats itself.

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• I want to be famous but unknown!

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• Art is not what you see, But what you make others see.

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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.

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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.

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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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• 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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• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

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• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

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• Art is vice. You don’t marry it legitimately, you rape it.

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

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• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

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Edgar Degas (18)

Birth:	19th July, 1834
Death:	27th September, 1917
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Painter

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Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.

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