Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body. — Edgar Degas Body Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light. — Edgar Degas Effects Copy Share Image
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic. — Edgar Degas Anxiety Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. — Edgar Degas Call me Copy Share Image
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. — Edgar Degas Adversity Copy Share Image
A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one… — Edgar Degas Attitude Copy Share Image
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in… — Edgar Degas Call me Copy Share Image
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas Communication Copy Share Image
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting… — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the… — Edgar Degas Inspirational 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 Accident Copy Share Image
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature… — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him.… — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to… — Edgar Degas Accepting 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
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on… — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust… — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on. — Edgar Degas Great patience Copy Share Image
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again. — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50. — Edgar Degas Difficult Copy Share Image
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. — Edgar Degas Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. — Edgar Degas Important Copy Share Image
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey. — Edgar Degas Beautiful Copy Share Image
