Edgar Degas Quotes about Giving

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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

Art, Mean, Giving

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Mean, Ideas, Giving

"The Royal Academy". Walter Sickert, English Review, June 1912.

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

Giving, Advice, Secret

Richard Thomson, Edgar Degas, Whitworth Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum (1987). “The private Degas”

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

Expression, People, Giving

Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Expression, Giving, Body

Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”