EDEdgar Degas

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Edgar Degas

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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02Undated

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

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03Undated

I want to be famous but unknown!

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04Undated

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

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05Undated

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

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06Undated

We were created to look at one another, weren't we

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07Undated

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

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08Undated

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

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09Undated

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

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10Undated

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.

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