Quote

I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

Edgar Degas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Cups
Rewards
Horse
Given
Beautiful
Feel
Must
Jockey
Feels
Jockeys

More quotes by Edgar Degas

Image
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
Image
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
Edgar Degas
Image
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
Image
Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
Edgar Degas
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Edgar Degas
Image
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
Image
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
Edgar Degas
Image
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
Edgar Degas
Image
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
Edgar Degas
Image
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
Image
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
Image
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas
Image
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
Image
I would like to be famous but unknown.
Edgar Degas
Image
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
Edgar Degas