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
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
Drawing is your understanding of form.
I would like to be famous but unknown.
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.
I don't admit that a woman draws that well!
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.
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.
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.