4 Edgar Degas Quotes on Painting

Edgar Degas quotes on painting

43. Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

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

47. How awful it is not being able to see clearly any more! I have had to give up drawing and painting and for years now content myself with sculpture ... But if my eyesight continues to dim I won't even be able to model any more. What will I do with my days then?

50. If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.