Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degaswas a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his renditions of dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth19 July 1834
CityParis, France
Edgar Degas quotes about
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
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.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.