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Picture Quotes by Edgar Degas
- 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…
- I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished…
- A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it…
- A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
- 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…
- A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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