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> [The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/the-frame-is-the-pimp-of-painting-it-enhances-it-but-it-must-never/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

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> [The frame is the reward of the artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/the-frame-is-the-reward-of-the-artist/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

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## More by Edgar Degas

> [There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/there-are-some-women-who-should-barely-be-spoken-to-they-should-only/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/the-air-we-see-in-the-paintings-of-the-old-masters-is-never-the-air/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [Even in front of nature one must compose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/even-in-front-of-nature-one-must-compose/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/art-is-vice-one-does-not-wed-it-one-rapes-it/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/what-a-delightful-thing-is-the-conversation-of-specialists-one/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [Instantaneity is photography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/instantaneity-is-photography/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/women-can-never-forgive-me-they-hate-me-they-feel-that-i-am-disarming/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/in-painting-you-must-give-the-idea-of-the-true-by-means-of-the-false/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/i-would-have-been-in-mortal-misery-all-my-life-for-fear-my-wife-might/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/great-patience-is-called-for-on-the-hard-path-that-i-have-entered-on/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/there-is-too-much-talk-and-gossip-pictures-are-apparently-made-like/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/what-is-certain-is-that-setting-a-piece-of-nature-in-place-and/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [I should like to be famous and unknown.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/i-should-like-to-be-famous-and-unknown/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [Art is really a battle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/art-is-really-a-battle/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

> [A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/a-picture-is-an-artificial-work-outside-nature-it-calls-for-as-much/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

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