There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: Intelligence
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: Ignorance, Ability
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: Experts, Professionalism
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: Difficulty, Talent
Taste! It doesn’t exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: The Artist
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: Women
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: Knowledge
You must have a high concept not of what you are doing, but of what you may do someday. Without that there’s no point to working.
—Edgar Degas
A lofty idea must be had, not of what one is doing, but of what one may someday do. Otherwise there is no point in working on.
—Edgar Degas
Topics: Doing Your Best, Ideas
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Claude Monet French Painter
- Georges Braque French Painter
- Auguste Rodin French Sculptor
- Pablo Picasso Spanish Painter
- Jean Cocteau French Poet, Artist
- Robert Henri American Painter
- Grandma Moses American Painter
- Jean-Paul Sartre French Philosopher
- Voltaire French Philosopher, Author
- Marquis de Sade French Writer
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