“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”
posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)
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French artist 1834–1917Related quotes
“What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.”
Source: A Time for New Dreams
Variant: As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you
Source: Every Soul a Star
C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.
Quoted in Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
quotes, undated
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 51, note 60
“You see with your mind what others miss with their eyes.”
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“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
