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Art Quotes by Edgar Degas
- Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
- My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do…
- One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
- The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to…
- Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
- Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse…
- The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
- The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing…
- One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
- Art is really a battle.
- Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
- I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct.…
- One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which…
- the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
- Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Art is not what you see, but what you 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.
- No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
- A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people
- Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into…
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