[b]Edgar Degas
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see. [/b]
Or: philosophy is not what you think but what you must make others think.
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Or: philosophizing is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
Any bores here?
The true traveler never arrives.
Great, he thought, one more thing I’m doing wrong.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Of course we all know that for most of us it’s the other way around.
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
My guess: not nearly as sinister as it sounds.