Quote #32
Even working from nature you have to compose.
More from Edgar Degas
- Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
- Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
- A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and ad…
- Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
- The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they f…
- You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must appear accidental, even a movement.
- A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
- Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.