Quotes by Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

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Effort

Men

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.

Artist

Imagination

Two

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.

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

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A picture is first of all a product of the artist’s imagination, it must never be a copy.

Artist

Firsts

Imagination

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

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Criminals

Spirit

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.

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Heart

Shoes

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?

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Stupid

Thinking

Art is really a battle.

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

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Quotes by Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

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.

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.

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

A picture is first of all a product of the artist’s imagination, it must never be a copy.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

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.

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?

Art is really a battle.

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

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