Edgar DegasThinkers

Art is not something you marry. It's something you rape.

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

Art's most beautiful things come from renunciation.

Art is vice... one does not wed it, one rapes it.

Art is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

Art is a field in which nothing should seem accidental, not even movement.

Artist is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will.

The Artist is one who does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

The Artist is one who must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

A Painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy.

Painting is only good when the painter no longer knows what he is doing.

Painting is doen well when it is done like a conversation in real life, which is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk.

Painting is an activity for which the mind is utterly useless. It is of use outside only to hail a bus and pay his fair.