Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
More Quotes from 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
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
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