Эдгар Дега цитаты
Эдгар Дега
Дата рождения: 19. Июль 1834
Дата смерти: 27. Сентябрь 1917
Иле́р-Жерме́н-Эдга́р де Га, или Эдга́р Дега́ — французский живописец, один из виднейших и оригинальнейших представителей импрессионистского движения.
Цитаты Эдгар Дега
„Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.“
— Edgar Degas
Quoted in Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century, ed. Robert Goldwater (Pantheon, 1945)
„I should like to be famous and unknown.“
— Edgar Degas
Degas said this to Henri Rouart, as cited by Antoine Terrasse, in Degas (Chartwell Books, 1982)
„Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.“
— Edgar Degas
Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in [http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/ 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas]
„A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.“
— Edgar Degas
quote from Georges Jeanniot, in Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas, 1933)
„Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.“
— Edgar Degas
Quoted by George Moore, in Impressions and Opinions (1891)
