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Famous Edgar Degas Quotes
“The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.”
Source: Drawings
Source: Degas by Degas
“In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.”
Source: Degas' Ballet Dancers
“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.”