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Edgar Degas Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful! Picture Quote #1

Taste! It doesn’t exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it Picture Quote #1

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body Picture Quote #1

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there’s no point in working Picture Quote #1

Art is vice. You don’t marry it legitimately, you rape it Picture Quote #1

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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false Picture Quote #1

We were created to look at one another, weren’t we? Picture Quote #1

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again Picture Quote #1

What a horrible thing yellow is Picture Quote #1

Taste! It doesn’t exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn’t interest me Picture Quote #1

I should like to be famous and unknown Picture Quote #1

If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn’t want anyone killed. I’d be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with Picture Quote #1

I want to be famous but unknown! Picture Quote #1

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed Picture Quote #1

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one’s recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts Picture Quote #1

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Make people’s portraits in familiar and typical attitudes Picture Quote #1

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it Picture Quote #1

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation Picture Quote #1

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement Picture Quote #1

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do Picture Quote #1

So that’s the telephone? They ring, and you run Picture Quote #1

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A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy Picture Quote #1

My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them?... I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said Picture Quote #1

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime Picture Quote #1

I don’t admit that a woman draws that well! Picture Quote #1

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them Picture Quote #1

One does not marry art. One ravishes it Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) I’ll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful! (Edgar Degas Quotes) Taste! It doesn’t exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. (Edgar Degas Quotes) Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body. (Edgar Degas Quotes) You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there’s no point in working. (Edgar Degas Quotes) Art is vice. You don’t marry it legitimately, you rape it (Edgar Degas Quotes) In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false (Edgar Degas Quotes) We were created to look at one another, weren’t we? (Edgar Degas Quotes) Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again (Edgar Degas Quotes) What a horrible thing yellow is (Edgar Degas Quotes) Taste! It doesn’t exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it (Edgar Degas Quotes) 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 Quotes) What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn’t interest me (Edgar Degas Quotes) I should like to be famous and unknown (Edgar Degas Quotes) If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn’t want anyone killed. I’d be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with (Edgar Degas Quotes) I want to be famous but unknown! (Edgar Degas Quotes) There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed (Edgar Degas Quotes) One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one’s recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts (Edgar Degas Quotes) Make people’s portraits in familiar and typical attitudes (Edgar Degas Quotes) Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it (Edgar Degas Quotes) The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation (Edgar Degas Quotes) One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement (Edgar Degas Quotes) Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do (Edgar Degas Quotes) So that’s the telephone? They ring, and you run (Edgar Degas Quotes) A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy (Edgar Degas Quotes) My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them?... I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said (Edgar Degas Quotes) An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime (Edgar Degas Quotes) I don’t admit that a woman draws that well! (Edgar Degas Quotes) The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them (Edgar Degas Quotes) One does not marry art. One ravishes it (Edgar Degas Quotes)

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