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

Quote by Edgar Degas

Topics: Art Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Painting Quotes

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists...

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the...

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the...

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial...

Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial...

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

All good art is an indiscretion

All good art is an indiscretion

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always...

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always...

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always...

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always...

looking ahead is for the best,don't fall behind cus is all in your mind and...

looking ahead is for the best,don't fall behind cus is all in your mind and...

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?