Edgar Degas

Artist

1834-07-19

Books by Edgar Degas

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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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Art is not what you see but what you make others see
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I want to be famous but unknown!
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Art is not what you see but what you make others see
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I want to be famous but unknown!
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Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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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.
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Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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Instantaneity is photography.
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