All Edgar Degas Quotes
- Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? Communication
- Even in front of nature one must compose. Compose
- Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. Art
- A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. Artificial
- I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct.… All
- I would like to be famous but unknown. Fame
- Drawing is your understanding of form. Drawing
- If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun. Difficult
- One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which… Achieve
- Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. Coquetry
- I don't admit that a woman draws that well! Admit
- What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my… Bus
- The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. Air
- Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance. All
- Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on. Called
- If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh,… Anyone
- Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies. All
- I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey. Beautiful
- the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. Anyone
- I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it...… End