Edgar Degas Quotes

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

I want to be famous but unknown!

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

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 is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Success! Success! The enemy of progress!

We were created to look at one another, weren't we

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

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 vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

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

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.

Art is not what you see but what you make others see

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...

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. —Edgar Degas

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see

she could not miss the Kennedy Center’s production of The Dancer, a musical based on Edgar Degas’s famous painting Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.

Seni bukan tentang apa yang kita lihat, tetapi tentang apa yang kita membuat orang lain lihat.

Kalbimi pembe saten bir ayakkabıya hapsettim.” Edgar Degas

Degas, lui, conseillait à ses confrères et aux jeunes artistes de ne jamais peindre d'après nature. Pour lui, l'œuvre d'art–en l'espèce, la peinture–était ou, du moins, devait être non point la copie servile d'une chose vue, mais un produit de l'imagination. Même s'il n'hésitait pas, partant en guerre avec sa passion coutumière contre les peintres de "plein-air", à déclarer qu'il fallait "coller ceux-ci au poteau" ou les empêcher officiellement de peindre à leur manière. (p. 9)

Rien en art ne doit ressembler à un accident, même le mouvement.

she could take a seat for the evening in the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes. Conveniently located on the Place Pigalle, it was to this café that Édouard Manet and his Impressionist companions had switched allegiance from the Café Guerbois in the 1870s.16 It was also the café whose unremarkable interior Edgar Degas used as the setting for his In the Café (The Absinthe Drinker) (1875–1876).

Art isn’t something you marry. It’s something you rape.