« All Only Quotes · Edgar Degas's Page
Only Quotes by Edgar Degas
- I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
- 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…
- There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
- There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
- 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.…
- Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
More Only Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle