Edgar Degas

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

- Edgar Degas

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

- Edgar Degas

"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy."

- Edgar Degas

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

- Edgar Degas

"Drawing is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality."

- Edgar Degas