There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. — Edgar Degas Inspirational Copy Share Image
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Air Copy Share Image
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas Absolutely nothing 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 Coquetry Copy Share Image
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. — Edgar Degas Painting 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… — Edgar Degas Death Copy Share Image
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on. — Edgar Degas Great patience 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… — Edgar Degas Commerce 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 Certain Copy Share Image
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas Artificial Copy Share Image
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. — Edgar Degas Adversity Copy Share Image
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light… — Edgar Degas Candlelight Copy Share Image
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. — Edgar Degas Important Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for… — Edgar Degas Art 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 Art 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 Body Copy Share Image
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are… — Edgar Degas Audience Copy Share Image
One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but… — Edgar Degas Achieve Copy Share Image
