4 Edgar Degas Quotes on Reality

Edgar Degas quotes on reality

15. Une peinture, c'est d'abord un produit de l'imagination de l'artiste, ce ne doir jamais etre une copie. Si, ensuite, on peut y ajouter deux ou trois accents de nature, evidemment ca ne fait pas de mal.

21. The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

32. Even working from nature you have to compose.

42. 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 obscenities? As far as work goes, well, they paint or sculpt when they are tired of enjoying themselves.