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French - Artist
July 19, 1834
More Quotes by Edgar Degas
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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