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
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
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
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
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
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
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
