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

Quote by Edgar Degas

Topics: Art Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Painting Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like...

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like...

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur...

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur...

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then...

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then...

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order...

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order...