The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going… — 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
