Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. Edgar Degas More Quotes by Edgar Degas More Quotes From Edgar Degas A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. Edgar Degas artistimaginationfirsts I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself. Edgar Degas reflectiondoubtart Instantaneity is photography. Edgar Degas photography Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas personalitydoetwo The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. Edgar Degas strongmeanart Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. Edgar Degas artistexpressionwriting The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. Edgar Degas heroicballetdance A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. Edgar Degas crimework-outdeception Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture. Edgar Degas realismsentimentsimportant Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. Edgar Degas philosophyhistoryart One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working. Edgar Degas futurecreatingart The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them. Edgar Degas secretadvicegiving Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. Edgar Degas art-isvicesart I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death. Edgar Degas styleboredfound Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. Edgar Degas forgive-meforgivinghate There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed. Edgar Degas womenshould Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies. Edgar Degas expressiongivingpeople It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. Edgar Degas solitudeartistwish I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey. Edgar Degas jockeyshorsebeautiful 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? Edgar Degas stupidartthinking
