Edgar Degas

“Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape.”

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

“What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.”

“One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.”

“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”