"My art, what do you want to say……" — 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 not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said."
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Edgar Degas
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83 Quotes by Edgar Degas
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something…
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident,…
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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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