Edgar Degas Quotes

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection.

People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

You have to always work on your batting as you are never perfect. I am working on my batting every day and trying to perfect a few shots that will help me score all around the world.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

Usually, if I hear songs, I record it on a Voice Memo first. I have to perfect it. I'm a big fan of delivery, and I want to make sure you're saying it right. I'm like, 'This has to be perfect when I do this.'