People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? - Edgar Degas
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
- Edgar Degas
We were created to look at one another, weren't we? - Edgar Degas
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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
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…
If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun. - Edgar Degas
If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
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
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. - Edgar Degas
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. - Edgar Degas
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death. - Edgar Degas
I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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