The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas Apart Copy Share Image
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. — Edgar Degas Feminism Copy Share Image
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. — Edgar Degas Important Copy Share Image
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again. — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin… — Edgar Degas Bags 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… — Edgar Degas Death 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 Art Copy Share Image
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as… — Edgar Degas Body Copy Share Image
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without… — Edgar Degas Career 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 Coquetry Copy Share Image
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree… — Edgar Degas Console Copy Share Image
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn… — Edgar Degas Every day Copy Share Image
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are… — Edgar Degas Audience Copy Share Image
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on… — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust… — Edgar Degas Art 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 Accepting Copy Share Image
If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint… — Edgar Degas Eye 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 Art 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 Add 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… — Edgar Degas Commerce 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on. — Edgar Degas Great patience Copy Share Image
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body. — Edgar Degas Body Copy Share Image
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. — Edgar Degas Adversity Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
