And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin… — Edgar Degas Bags 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
I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful! — Edgar Degas Beautiful Copy Share Image
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body. — Edgar Degas Body 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 Art 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
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
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
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
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again. — Edgar Degas Drawing 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
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas Ballet 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
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
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
There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one… — Edgar Degas Funny 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
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
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Accents Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
