If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white. — Edgar Degas 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 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
I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for… — 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
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn… — Edgar Degas 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 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 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
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are… — Edgar Degas 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 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
