Degas Quotes
- There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever… — A. Alfred Taubman
- Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could… — Mary Cassatt
- I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled… — Cathy Marie Buchanan
- I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will. — Paul Valery
- A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!... — Paul Gauguin
- The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life. — Mary Cassatt
- When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
- Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking… — John Berger
- The human quality Degas most admired was endurance. — John Berger