Source: Edgar Degas
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Famous Edgar Degas Quotes
Source: Degas by Degas
“An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.”
“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.”
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”
“A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.”
“The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.”
“Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.”
Source: Degas [exposition]