Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.),… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him.… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage,… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. — Edgar Degas Copy Share
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Copy Share
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas Copy Share
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. — Edgar Degas Copy Share
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… — Edgar Degas Copy Share
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic… — Edgar Degas Copy Share
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things. — Edgar Degas Copy Share
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas Copy Share
![“I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.” quote by Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/269/edgar-degas-4615_artist_i-put-it-picture-a-still-life-of-a-pear_1842263.png)
