“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” — Edgar Degas Quote

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

“One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.”

“In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.”

“The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.”