Quotes by : Edgar Degas

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Art is not what you see but what you make others see

I want to be famous but unknown!

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's....

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.