The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel… — Edgar Degas 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 Copy Share Image
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one… — 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
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in… — 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
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — 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
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — 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
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I… — 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
