Edgar Degas Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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...
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.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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.
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.
I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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 do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people
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.
The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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.
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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.
There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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 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.