If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white. — Edgar Degas Black Copy Share Image
The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors. — Edgar Degas Air Copy Share Image
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance. — Edgar Degas Dance Copy Share Image
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas Apart Copy Share Image
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. — Edgar Degas Feminism 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
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things. — Edgar Degas Artist Copy Share Image
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is… — Edgar Degas Concern 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
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
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
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
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
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
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
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
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Artist 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
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
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody. — Edgar Degas Appearance 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 Career Copy Share Image
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
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. — Edgar Degas Art Copy Share Image
I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for… — Edgar Degas Company Copy Share Image
The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense. — Edgar Degas Artist 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
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them. — Edgar Degas Advice Copy Share Image
