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One Quotes by Edgar Degas
- Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
- You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no…
- One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, 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…
- One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
- There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
- Even in front of nature one must compose.
- One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which…
- I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it...…
- Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
- One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature…
- 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.…
- What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
- We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
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