Quote #40
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
More from Edgar Degas
- Painting is not very difficult when you don't know how; but when you know, oh! then, it's another matter.
- Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.
- Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
- But it's true, isn't it Pauline, that people imagine that the artists and their models spend their time getting up to all sorts of obscenit…
- Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effe…
- Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
- Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
- Damn, and just when I was starting to get it!