Absinthe Quote by Doris Lanier

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!...

— Paul Gauguin

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane…

— John Berger

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

“But to me, the argument is just semantics, an exercise in mental masturbation. True, Degas painted neither plein air nor spontaneously, but he had…

— Barbara A. Shapiro

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary…

— 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,…

— Irving Stone

Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so…

— Kenneth Clark

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

— Max Liebermann

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.…

— Kenneth Clark

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

— John Berger

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec