The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Art 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
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime. — Edgar Degas Approach Copy Share Image
I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful! — Edgar Degas Beautiful Copy Share Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. — Edgar Degas Art 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
There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one… — Edgar Degas Doing Copy Share Image
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees… — Edgar Degas Change 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 Aim Copy Share Image
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas Art 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
C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do). — Edgar Degas Feels Copy Share Image
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly… — Edgar Degas Battle Copy Share Image
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not… — Edgar Degas Artist 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 Artist 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
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage,… — Edgar Degas Add 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
If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint… — Edgar Degas Eye Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I… — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Accents Copy Share Image
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to… — Edgar Degas Art 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
![“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)
