Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn… — Edgar Degas Every day 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
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without… — Edgar Degas Conception Copy Share Image
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree… — Edgar Degas Console Copy Share Image
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — 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… — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. — Edgar Degas Art 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
Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him.… — Edgar Degas Doe Copy Share Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas Good thing 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
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime. — Edgar Degas Approach Copy Share Image
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up… — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic. — Edgar Degas Anxiety Copy Share Image
I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.),… — Edgar Degas Artist 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
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
