Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas on art
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas on art
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. Edgar Degas on art
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. Edgar Degas on imagination