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Edgar Degas on Art

1834–1917 France

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4 quotes

What a pity we allowed ourselves to be called Impressionists.

The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

An Intimate Portrait (1927)

If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927)

I always urged my contemporaries [the Impressionist painters in Paris, circa 1885] to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edgar Degas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.