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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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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. – Robert Indiana

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The soul of the artist is oppressed by the atmosphere of the counting-house. – Franz von Dingelstedt, Die Amazone: Novelle, 1869, translated from German by J.M

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