Edgar Degas Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

  Edgar Degas

  Memories, Imagination, Transformation

• The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Two, Air

• A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Imagination, Firsts

  "Degas".

• 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 have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

  Edgar Degas

  Imagination, Mind, Use

• A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Two, Imagination

  Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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