142 Quotes by Edgar Degas

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

If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn't want anyone killed. I'd be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

Drawing is your understanding of form.

I would like to be famous but unknown.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!