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Edgar Degas quotes: An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime. An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Edgar Degas quotes: I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death. I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
Edgar Degas quotes: The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
Edgar Degas quotes: I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking... I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...
Edgar Degas quotes: You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working. You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
Edgar Degas quotes: No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas quotes: Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it. Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
Edgar Degas quotes: If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white. If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
Edgar Degas quotes: A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
Edgar Degas quotes: The frame is the reward of the artist. The frame is the reward of the artist.
Edgar Degas quotes: The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors. The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
Edgar Degas quotes: Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance ... Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance ...
Edgar Degas quotes: I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things. I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
Edgar Degas quotes: I should like to be famous and unknown. I should like to be famous and unknown.
Edgar Degas quotes: Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.
Edgar Degas quotes: I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better. I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.
Edgar Degas quotes: I would like to be famous but unknown. I would like to be famous but unknown.
Edgar Degas quotes: The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light. The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
Edgar Degas quotes: The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense. The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
Edgar Degas quotes: There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic. There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
Edgar Degas quotes: Everybody has talent attwenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty. Everybody has talent at
twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas quotes: One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas quotes: The true traveler never arrives. The true traveler never arrives.
Edgar Degas quotes: Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
Edgar Degas quotes: Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas quotes: For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy.For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult. For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy.
For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
Edgar Degas quotes: Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body. Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
Edgar Degas quotes: Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies. Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
Edgar Degas quotes: We were created to look at one another, weren't we We were created to look at one another, weren't we
Edgar Degas quotes: It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50. It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.
Edgar Degas quotes: There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart. There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
Edgar Degas quotes: Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
Edgar Degas quotes: People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
Edgar Degas quotes: Even in front of nature one must compose. Even in front of nature one must compose.
Edgar Degas quotes: Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas quotes: A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people
Edgar Degas quotes: One does not marry art. One ravishes it. One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
Edgar Degas quotes: Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form. Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
Edgar Degas quotes: Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body. Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.
Edgar Degas quotes: The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation. The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
Edgar Degas quotes: Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Edgar Degas quotes: The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
Edgar Degas quotes: I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
Edgar Degas quotes: Drawing is your understanding of form. Drawing is your understanding of form.
Edgar Degas quotes: Art is really a battle. Art is really a battle.
Edgar Degas quotes: Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again. Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
Edgar Degas quotes: Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on. Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
Edgar Degas quotes: There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
Edgar Degas quotes: Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
Edgar Degas quotes: The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them. The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
Edgar Degas quotes: Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
Edgar Degas quotes: Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Edgar Degas quotes: Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money. Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
Edgar Degas quotes: Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
Edgar Degas quotes: Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas quotes: It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we. It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
Edgar Degas quotes: There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing. 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 quotes: Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas quotes: So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run. So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
Edgar Degas quotes: In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas quotes: I don't admit that a woman draws that well! I don't admit that a woman draws that well!
Edgar Degas quotes: Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
Edgar Degas quotes: What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas quotes: I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful! I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
Edgar Degas quotes: Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Edgar Degas quotes: I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.
Edgar Degas quotes: What a horrible thing yellow is. What a horrible thing yellow is.
Edgar Degas quotes: The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime. The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.
Edgar Degas quotes: If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun. If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
Edgar Degas quotes: Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
Edgar Degas quotes: The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
Edgar Degas quotes: Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas quotes: I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it ... painting is one's private I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it ... painting is one's private life.
Edgar Degas quotes: Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
Edgar Degas quotes: I want to be famous but unknown! I want to be famous but unknown!
Edgar Degas quotes: Instantaneity is photography. Instantaneity is photography.
Edgar Degas quotes: A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
Edgar Degas quotes: A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody. A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

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