Author: Edgar Degas

Quotes

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

- Edgar Degas

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

- Edgar Degas

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

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

- Edgar Degas

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.

- Edgar Degas

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