Art & Culture

Edgar Degas

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”

“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.”

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”

“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”

“Insight is the first condition of Art.”

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”

“Art is born of humiliation.”

“I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.”

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”

“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”