5 Edgar Degas Quotes on Drawing

Edgar Degas quotes on drawing

9. I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

27. Le dessin n'est pas la forme, il est la maniere de voir la forme.

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

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

58. With what is he concerned? Drawing was at its lowest ebb; it had to be restored. Looking at these nudes, I exclaim, 'Drawing has come back again!' As a man and painter he sets an example. Degas is one of those rare masters who could have had anything he wanted, yet he scorned decorations, honors, fortune, without bitterness, without jealousy.