142 Quotes by Edgar Degas

Be sure to give the same expression to a person’s face that you give to his body.

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.

For those who don’t know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...

So that’s the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Success! Success! The enemy of progress!

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

I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement.