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

Other quotes by Edgar Degas

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

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Professionalism
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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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Poor Georgia OKeeffe. Death didnt soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. – Jerry Saltz

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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

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