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All Quotes by author - Edgar Degas

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

" 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 which imagination collaborates with memory. "

" No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. "

" One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. "

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

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

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

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