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

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

Category:
Professionalism
Read Quote

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

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Painting is by nature a luminous language. – Robert Delaunay

Category:
Art

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. – William Osler

Category:
Art

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Art

Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. – Andy Warhol

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. – Rod McKuen

Category:
pet

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, its a good indication of what youre made of. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Category:
good

Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So theres a little inequity there about knowledge. – Mike DeWine

Category:
Knowledge

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, its my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. – Larry Elder

Category:
dad