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

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

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

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