Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
– Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
– Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
– Edgar Degas
Taste! It doesn't exist, An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
– Edgar Degas
There is no such [thing] as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
– Edgar Degas
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
– Edgar Degas
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.