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Quotes from Degas Dance Drawing — Edgar Degas

1834–1917 France

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Drawing is not the same as form; it is a way of seeing form.

Degas Dance Drawing (1935)

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Degas Dance Drawing (1935)

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Degas Dance Drawing (1935)

The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

Degas Dance Drawing (1935)

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