I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

Edgar Degas

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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see. by Edgar Degas

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

dance beauty art

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but th... by Edgar Degas

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

source light shows

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 just a waste of time.

wasting-time waste artist

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

vagueness people art

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

communication real half

The true traveler never arrives. by Edgar Degas

The true traveler never arrives.

traveler

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make ot... by Edgar Degas

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

artist doe art

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. Ther... by Edgar Degas

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

feels

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when... by Edgar Degas

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

painting experience art

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it... by Edgar Degas

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

twenties artist fifty

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to b... by Edgar Degas

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

my-own black-and-white way

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.

intelligent art thinking

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

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

together night long

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

details lines battle

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

study reflection art

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown. by Edgar Degas

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

want

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

transformation imagination memories

The frame is the reward of the artist. by Edgar Degas

The frame is the reward of the artist.

rewards artist

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.

clothes girl lying

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.

occupation simple beauty