142 Quotes by Edgar Degas

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

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

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.