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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

Other quotes by Edgar Degas

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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Imagination
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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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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artists obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession. – Alberto Giacometti

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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