Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Quote by Edgar Degas

Topics: Art Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Painting Quotes

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's...

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's...

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art...

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art...

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good...

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good...

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better...

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better...

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection...

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection...

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.