Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I would like to be famous but unknown.
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
Unknown
Famous
Fame
Would
Like
More quotes by Edgar Degas
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
Edgar Degas
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
Edgar Degas
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
Edgar Degas
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Edgar Degas
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
Edgar Degas
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
Edgar Degas
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
Edgar Degas
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
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
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
Edgar Degas
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
Edgar Degas
And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
Edgar Degas
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
Edgar Degas
Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
Edgar Degas
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
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
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
The frame is the reward of the artist.
Edgar Degas
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
Edgar Degas
