Quote #34
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
More from Edgar Degas
- Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
- You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must appear accidental, even a movement.
- Even working from nature you have to compose.
- Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
- Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
- Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effe…
- 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…
- Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.