Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
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
Crime
Outside
Nature
Commission
Work
Cunning
Much
Deception
Artificial
Calls
Picture
More quotes by Edgar Degas
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.
Edgar Degas
Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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
I really have a lot of stuff in my head if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.
Edgar Degas
I would like to be famous but unknown.
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
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Edgar Degas
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
Edgar Degas
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
Edgar Degas
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
Edgar Degas
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
Edgar Degas
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
Edgar Degas
Women can never forgive me they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Edgar Degas
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 sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
Edgar Degas
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
Edgar Degas
