There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing. Edgar Degas More Quotes by Edgar Degas More Quotes From Edgar Degas I don't admit that a woman draws that well! Edgar Degas gender wells draws A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything. Edgar Degas artist imagination two Drawing is your understanding of form. Edgar Degas drawing form understanding Art is really a battle. Edgar Degas art-is battle art One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts. Edgar Degas recollection invention tyranny What a horrible thing yellow is. Edgar Degas horrible-things horrible yellow There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment. Edgar Degas gossip competition people I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life. Edgar Degas solitude suffering people Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. Edgar Degas typical attitude people The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. Edgar Degas painting breathe air I should like to be famous and unknown. Edgar Degas artist should These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole. Edgar Degas keyholes decent simple I would like to be famous but unknown. Edgar Degas fame I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour. Edgar Degas drawing inspiration looks Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. Edgar Degas contemplating boredom overcoming I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things. Edgar Degas insurance-companies company stuff Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body. Edgar Degas expression attitude people the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. Edgar Degas sadness littles art I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture. Edgar Degas wife littles might I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. Edgar Degas brutality attitude art
