7 Edgar Degas Quotes on Perception

Edgar Degas quotes on perception

16. C'est tres bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son memoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingeniosite collabore avec la memoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappe, c'est-a-dire le necessaire.

18. Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

21. The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

25. People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

27. Le dessin n'est pas la forme, il est la maniere de voir la forme.

33. Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

42. But it's true, isn't it Pauline, that people imagine that the artists and their models spend their time getting up to all sorts of obscenities? As far as work goes, well, they paint or sculpt when they are tired of enjoying themselves.