142 Quotes by Edgar Degas

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.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?