All Edgar Degas Quotes
- It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. Artist
- Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. Find
- One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature… Exerts
- Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. Art
- Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Art
- It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.… All
- Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. Art
- Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Art
- Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Artist
- No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. Art
- What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. Absolutely
- And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like… Artificial
- I want to be famous but unknown! Famous
- C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do). Comme
- A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people Always Make
- The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. Apart
- There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic. From
- You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself… Aim
- Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into… Accept
- We were created to look at one another, weren't we? Artist