Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Paris
France
Hilaire Germain Edgar de Gas
Ėdgar Dega
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
Edgar Dega
Hilarie Germain Edgar Degas
H. G. E. Degas
E. Degas
Hilaire Germain Degas
hilaire germain edgar degas
Te-chia
degas edgar
Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas
h.g.e. degas
edgar hilaire germain degas
h.e.g. degas
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
hilaire degas
Jilaira
Must
Giving
False
Mean
Painting
Idea
Means
True
Give
Ideas
More quotes by Edgar Degas
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
Edgar Degas
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
Edgar Degas
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
Edgar Degas
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
Edgar Degas
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Edgar Degas
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
Edgar Degas
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
Edgar Degas
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
Edgar Degas
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
Edgar Degas
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
Edgar Degas
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
Edgar Degas
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
Edgar Degas
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
Edgar Degas
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
Edgar Degas
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
Edgar Degas
One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
Edgar Degas
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
Edgar Degas
