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.
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„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)
„[make drawings of] series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc..“
— Edgar Degas
quotes, undated, Quote from Degas' Notebook (undated); as quoted in Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, Anne Distel, Michel Hoog, Charles S. Moffett, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, N.Y.) 1975, pp. 81-82