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Quote by Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when y

Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas

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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. – John F. Kennedy

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Wherever art appears, life disappears. – Robert Motherwell

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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isnt any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument. – Jerry Saltz

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