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Famous Edgar Degas Quotes
Source: Edgar Degas: Paintings
“Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.”
Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas
“Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement”
Source: Pastels
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”
“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.”
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
Source: Degas As a Collector
“The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.”