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Edgar Degas [1834-1917] French

Rank: 101
Artist (with paintings)
Impressionism

Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.

Art, Imagination

Quote	Tags	Rank
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.	Art	101
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.	Art	102
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.		103
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.		104
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.		105
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.		106
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.		107
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.		108
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.	Imagination	109

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