142 Quotes by Edgar Degas

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

Everybody has talent attwenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

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

The true traveler never arrives.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

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

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