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Quote by Edgar Degas
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Deg

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – 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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Imagination
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Edgar Degas
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Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

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Art
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Edgar Degas
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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but Ive just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that its not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. – Sylvester Stallone

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A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers. – Jerry Saltz

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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