One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
- Edgar Degas
Art, Over, Hundred, Ten Times
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
- Edgar Degas
Art, Result, Mine, Spontaneous
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
- Edgar Degas
Absolutely Nothing, Conversation
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
- Edgar Degas
Doing, Painter, Longer, Good Things
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas
Art, How, Very, Easy
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
- Edgar Degas
Fifty, Everyone, Twenty-Five, Difficulty
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.
- Edgar Degas
Memory, Very, Which, Copy
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
- Edgar Degas
Painting, Give, Means, False
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas
Art, You, See, Make
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