3 Edgar Degas Quotes on Technique

Edgar Degas quotes on technique

4. I assure you no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament - temperament is the word - I know nothing.

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

25. People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.