One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going… — 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
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody. — 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
