Top 80 Edgar Degas Quotes (2024 Update)
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Edgar Degas Quote: “The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.”

51. “The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.”

52. “In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult – the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.”

53. “Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult – the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “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.”

54. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “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?”

55. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “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.”

56. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “Drawing is your understanding of form.”

57. “Drawing is your understanding of form.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, ‘That’s a pretty little thing,’ after I had finished a picture.”

58. “I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, ‘That’s a pretty little thing,’ after I had finished a picture.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.”

59. “A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.”

60. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.”

61. “The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “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.’”

62. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.”

63. “What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.”

64. “I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “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.”

65. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “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.”

66. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “A painting is above all a product of the artist’s imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn’t spoil anything.”

67. “A painting is above all a product of the artist’s imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn’t spoil anything.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “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.”

68. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.”

69. “Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “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.”

70. “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

Edgar Degas Quote: “Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.”

71. “Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.”

72. “What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “Make people’s portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.”

73. “Make people’s portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “Be sure to give the same expression to a person’s face that you give to his body.”

74. “Be sure to give the same expression to a person’s face that you give to his body.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...”

75. “I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “I’ll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!”

76. “I’ll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “Success! Success! The enemy of progress!”

77. “Success! Success! The enemy of progress!”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.”

78. “A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.”

79. “The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.”

80. “I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “Even in front of nature one must compose.”

81. “Even in front of nature one must compose.”

— Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Quote: “The frame is the reward of the artist.”

82. “The frame is the reward of the artist.”

— Edgar Degas

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