Art Quote by Edgar Degas Download Open image “Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.” — Edgar Degas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Beautiful Beautiful things Beauty Taste
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is that you are achingly self-conscious about every aesthetic decision you make, and taste is at its most powerful… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. — George Bellows Copy Share Image
It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“It always surprises me when people assume that something an artist has created is based on a true experience or reflects his or her… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously. — Solomon R. Guggenheim Copy Share Image
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas 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 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 I had… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic… — Edgar Degas 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 Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
