6 Edgar Degas Quotes on Creativity

Edgar Degas quotes on creativity

13. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

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

33. Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

54. What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

55. What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

60. I would ask him to give me his definition of drawing. 'You don't know a thing about it,' he would always end up saying. And without fail he would go on to this apologue: that the Muses do their work on their own, each apart from the others, and that they never talk shop. The day's work over, there are no discussions, no comparisons of their respective labors. 'They just dance,' he would shout.