Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas quotes

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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

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

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

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 w... (more Edgar Degas quotes)

Books about Edgar Degas

	Edgar Degas (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	Edgar Degas: Paintings That Dance: Paintings That Dance (Smart About Art) by Maryann Cocca-Leffler Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	The Notebooks of Edgar Degas: A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliotheque Nationale and Other Collections by Theodore Reff Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment

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