Quotes by Edgar Degas

• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
• 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. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see
• Art is not what you see but what you make others see.