Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917)
Known as Edgar Degas, was a French painter, printmaker and sculptor.
I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
I always urged my contemporaries 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.
Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.