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
„Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves… …I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.“
— Edgar Degas
quotes, undated, In Degas by Himself, Drawings, Paintings, Writings, ed. Richard Kendall 2000, p. 299
„Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.“
— Edgar Degas
quotes, undated, 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
quotes, undated, Je voudrais être illustre et inconnu.
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
1876 - 1895, Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/
„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
quotes, undated, quote from Georges Jeanniot, in Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas, 1933)
„villas with columns in different styles [in Louisiana, America] painted white, in gardens of magnolias, orange trees, banana trees, negroes in old clothes like characters from La Belle Jardiniere.... rosy white children in black [negro] arms.... a brilliant light which streams my eyes.... the Negresses of all shades, holding in their arms little white babies, so white, against white houses with columns of fluted wood and in gardens of orange trees.“
— Edgar Degas
1855 - 1875, quote on his journey through America during 1872
Quote from his letter, Louisiana, America 1872; as cited in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 113-114
„Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days…“
— Edgar Degas
posthumous quotes, "The Crime and the Punishment" (p. 48)
„I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.“
— Edgar Degas
1876 - 1895, Degas in 1883, as quoted by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 4
note 5: 20 June 1887, - Corot’s biographer Alfred Robaut https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Robaut told this story (1905. Vol. 1. P. 336)
„Certainly, Vollard, but listen: will you have a special dish without butter prepared for me? Mind you, no flowers on the table, and you must have dinner at half past seven sharp. I know you won't have your cat around and please don't allow anybody to bring a dog. And if there are to be any women I hope they won't come reeking of perfume. How horrible all those odors are when there are so many things that really smell good, like toast - or even manure! Ah - (a short hesitation), and very few lights. My eyes, you know, my poor eyes!“
— Edgar Degas
posthumous quotes, "Early Encounters" (p. 20)
Quoted by Vollard who came to invite Degas for dinner, that evening
