Edgar Degas Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Mean, Giving

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

  Edgar Degas

  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.

  Edgar Degas

  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.

  Edgar Degas

  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.

  Edgar Degas

  Expression, Giving, Body

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

• Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

  Edgar Degas

  Attitude, Expression, People

  Edgar Degas, Daniel Catton Rich (197?). “Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas”, ABRAMS

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