Art is not what you see but what you make others see

— Edgar Degas

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

— Edgar Degas

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

— Edgar Degas

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

— Edgar Degas

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

I want to be famous but unknown!

— Edgar Degas

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

— Edgar Degas

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

— Edgar Degas