Edgar Degas quotes

" Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. " # Knowledge # Arts and Artists # Architecture

" I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death. " # Death and Dying # Bores and Boredom # Style

" What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. " # Experts # Conversation # Understanding

" Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. " # Bores and Boredom # Action # Nature

" Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money. " # Money # Time and Time Management # Imagination

" I assure you no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament — temperament is the word — I know nothing. " # Arts and Artists # Words # Temperament

" Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole. " # Nudity # Psychology # Honesty

" Comme nous avons mal fait de nous laisser appeler Impressionistes. " # Arts and Artists

" 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. " # Listening # Love # Money

" Je n'admets pas qu'une femme puisse dessiner comme ca. " # Acting and Actors