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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas

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

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. — Edgar Degas

Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to each other. — Doris Lanier

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas

I should like to be famous and unknown. — Edgar Degas

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

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense. — Edgar Degas

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

The true traveler never arrives. — Edgar Degas

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. — Edgar Degas

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50. — Edgar Degas

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. — Edgar Degas

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance. — John Berger

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them. — Edgar Degas

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful! — Edgar Degas

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas

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

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. — Edgar Degas

I don't admit that a woman draws that well! — Edgar Degas

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. — Edgar Degas

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run. — Edgar Degas

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas

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

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