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.Edgar Degas
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
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
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
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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