A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — 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
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — 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
The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors. — 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
![“I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.” quote by Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/269/edgar-degas-4615_artist_i-put-it-picture-a-still-life-of-a-pear_1842263.jpg)
