142 Quotes by Edgar Degas

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.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.