Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

- Edgar Degas

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

- Edgar Degas

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

- Edgar Degas

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

- Edgar Degas

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is j…

- Edgar Degas

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

- Edgar Degas

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

- Edgar Degas

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

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

- Edgar Degas