142 Quotes by Edgar Degas

I’m glad I haven’t found my style yet. I’d be bored to death.

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting’s expense.

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

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult – the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression. A species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.

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.