Edgar Degas Quotes on Difficulty

3 quotes

  1. Painting is not very difficult when you don't know how; but when you know, oh! then, it's another matter.

  2. If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

  3. He was an avid collector of both old and new art; in his sixties he purchased two Gauguins, and when pushing eighty he remarked with some admiration of Cubism that 'it seems even more difficult than painting.'

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