Quote #52
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
More from Edgar Degas
- The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
- Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
- If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
- What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
- I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's priv…
- What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I ha…
- I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
- I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.