Edgar Degas Quotes

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Drawing is your understanding of form.

I can only draw what I see.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

I'm a relentless sketcher. It goes back to how you process the world around you - the whole left-brain, right-brain thing. Some people are data-driven. I've always been more visual.

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.