I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life. — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed. — Max Liebermann Copy Share Image
“Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to… — Doris Lanier Copy Share Image
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer… — A. Alfred Taubman Copy Share Image
What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of… — Serena Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,'… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“But to me, the argument is just semantics, an exercise in mental masturbation. True, Degas painted neither plein air nor spontaneously, but… — Barbara A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that… — Degas Copy Share Image
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