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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
— Edgar Degas
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
— Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
— Edgar Degas
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
— Edgar Degas
The frame is the reward of the artist.
— Edgar Degas
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
I should like to be famous and unknown.
— Edgar Degas
I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.
— Edgar Degas
I would like to be famous but unknown.
— Edgar Degas
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
— Edgar Degas
The true traveler never arrives.
— Edgar Degas
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
— Edgar Degas
We were created to look at one another, weren't we
— Edgar Degas
Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.
— Max Liebermann
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
— Edgar Degas
The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
— Edgar Degas
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
— Edgar Degas
Art is really a battle.
— Edgar Degas
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
— Jamie Wyeth
One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime. — Elizabeth Bishop
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
— Edgar Degas
Drawing is your understanding of form.
— Edgar Degas
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
— Edgar Degas
The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.
— John Berger
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
— Edgar Degas
I don't admit that a woman draws that well!
— Edgar Degas
What a horrible thing yellow is.
— Edgar Degas
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
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
— Edgar Degas
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
— Edgar Degas
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
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
— Edgar Degas
The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.
— Edgar Degas
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs! ...
— Paul Gauguin
If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
— Edgar Degas
I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
— Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
I want to be famous but unknown!
— Edgar Degas
Instantaneity is photography.
— Edgar Degas
A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
— Edgar Degas
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
— Edgar Degas
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
— Edgar Degas
Even in front of nature one must compose.
— Edgar Degas