Art Quote by Edgar Degas Download Open image “Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.” — Edgar Degas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art and artists Art and creativity Art dance Art history Art inspiration Art is Art making Art teacher Artist Artistic Artists and creativity Artists and life Beauty Creative Creative art Creative artists Creativity Dance Famous artist Favorite artist Fine arts Graphic design inspiration Great artist History and art Impressionism Impressionists Inspiration and art Inspiration and creativity Inspirational art Inspirational artist Inspirational graphic design Inspire creativity Inspiring art Inspiring artist Painter Painting Painting and art Painting art Passion for art Seeing Vision Works of art
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands. — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain,… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
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… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
