Pretty Clothes Quotes by Edgar Degas

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• Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
• So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
• 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…
• What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
• I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for…
• You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without…
• I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
• Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn…
• I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after…
• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even…
• An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

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