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

  • Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

  • Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

  • 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.