Frases de Edgar Degas (80 citas)

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Frases célebres de Edgar Degas

“Dibujo no es lo mismo que forma, sino que es una forma de ver la forma.”

“Es bueno copiar lo que se ve, pero es mucho mejor pintar lo que queda en nuestra memoria después de ver algo. Se trata de una transformación en donde la imaginación y la memoria trabajar juntas. Sólo se puede reproducir algo que nos golpeó, es decir, sólo lo esencial.”

— Edgar Degas

“Solamente cuando ya no sabe lo que está haciendo, un pintor hace cosas buenas.”

— Edgar Degas

“Un cuadro debe ser pintado con el mismo sentimiento con que un criminal comete un crimen.”

— Edgar Degas

Fuente: [Ortega Blake], Arturo (2013). El gran libro de las frases célebres. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. México. ISBN 6073116314, 9786073116312. https://books.google.cat/books?hl=es&id=QJIAVIKP1dgC&q=Degas#v=snippet&q=Degas&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 18 de noviembre de 2019.

“En el arte nada debe parecer accidental, incluso un movimiento.”

— Edgar Degas

“La pintura no es muy difícil cuando usted no sabe cómo, pero cuando sabe, ¡oh! Entonces, es otro asunto.”

— Edgar Degas

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“Hay un tipo de éxito que no se puede distinguir del pánico.”

— Edgar Degas

Éxito

“Lo que quiero hacer es el resultado de la reflexión y el estudio de los grandes maestros; de inspiración, espontaneidad, el temperamento.”

— Edgar Degas

Maestros

“Me gustaría ser famoso y desconocido.”

— Edgar Degas

“El aburrimiento pronto me supera cuando estoy contemplando la naturaleza.”

— Edgar Degas

Naturaleza

“Siempre insto a mis contemporáneos a buscar el interés y la inspiración para el desarrollo y estudio del dibujo, pero no me escuchan.”

— Edgar Degas

Dibujo, Buscar

“Una pintura requiere un poco de misterio, algunas imprecisiones y fantasías.”

— Edgar Degas

Pintura

“Jamás hubo un arte menos espontáneo que el mío. Lo que hago es el resultado de la reflexión y del estudio de los grandes maestros. De la inspiración, de la espontaniedad, del temperamento no sé nada.”

— Edgar Degas

Fuente: [Ocampo], Estela. El impresionismo: pintura, literatura, música, p. 60. Editorial Montesinos, 1981. https://books.google.es/books?id=SAwaXx2XN4kC&dq=renoir+y+manet+pintor&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s En Google Books. Consultado el 28 de abril de 2019.

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Edgar Degas: Frases en inglés

“Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves… …I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.”

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— Edgar Degas

In Degas by Himself, Drawings, Paintings, Writings, ed. Richard Kendall 2000, p. 299
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“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”

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— Edgar Degas

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.”

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— Edgar Degas

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”

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— Edgar Degas

Quoted in Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century, ed. Robert Goldwater (Pantheon, 1945)
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“I should like to be famous and unknown.”

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— Edgar Degas

Je voudrais être illustre et inconnu.
Degas said this to Henri Rouart, as cited by Antoine Terrasse, in Degas (Chartwell Books, 1982)
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“Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.”

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— Edgar Degas

Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/
1876 - 1895

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.”

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— Edgar Degas

quote from Georges Jeanniot, in Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas, 1933)
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“Painting is not very difficult when you don't know how; but when you know, oh! then, it's another matter.”

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— Edgar Degas

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

“pinkish and bluish draperies on neutral grey grounds and black cypresses…… The red of Jeptha's dress…… some reddish brown, some slightly pinkish…… Graduated blue sky…… the ground at the front a grey violet shadow… Look for some turquoise in the blue.(Degas' working note about choosing colors for his future painting 'The Daughter of Jeptha')”

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— Edgar Degas

Quote from Degas' working notes; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 34
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“What a pity we allowed ourselves to be called Impressionists.”

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— Edgar Degas

Comme nous avons mal fait de nous laisser appeler Impressionistes.
Quoted by Walter Sickert in 'Post-Impressionists,' Fortnightly Review (January 1911)
1896 - 1917

“He [ Corot ] is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.”

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— Edgar Degas

Degas in 1883, as quoted by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 2
Degas made this remark about Corot to Pissarro at the preview exhibition of the 'Jules Paton sale' in Paris, 24 April 1883 and overheard by Corot's biographer Alfred Robaut https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Robaut.
1876 - 1895

“[make drawings of] series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc..”

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— Edgar Degas

Quote from Degas' Notebook (undated); as quoted in Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, Anne Distel, Michel Hoog, Charles S. Moffett, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, N.Y.) 1975, pp. 81-82
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“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.”

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— Edgar Degas

Quote of Degas, as cited by Walter Sickert, in 'Post-Impressionism and Cubism', Pall Mall Gazette (1914-03-11).
According to Sickert, Degas had said this quote to him in 1885
1876 - 1895

“We also consider that Miss Berthe Morisot's [woman painter in French Impressionism who got later married with a brother of Eduard Manet] name and talent are too important to us to do without. [Degas is referring to her participation in the first Impressionist's show he was preparing, then; he was in strong opposition to Eduard Manet who wanted to exclude Berthe Morisot)”

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— Edgar Degas

Quote from Degas' letter to Cornelie Morisot (mother of Berthe Morisot), Spring 1873; as cited in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 119
1855 - 1875

“People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.”

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— Edgar Degas

"As He Grows Old" (p. 87)
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

“There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.”

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— Edgar Degas

Quoted by Daniel Halévy, Degas Parle (1960) [My Friend Degas, trans. and ed. Mina Curtiss, Wesleyan University Press, 1964], p. 119
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“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”

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— Edgar Degas

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

“A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.”

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— Edgar Degas

Une peinture, c'est d'abord un produit de l'imagination de l'artiste, ce ne doit jamais être une copie. Si, ensuite, on peut y ajouter deux ou trois accents de nature, evidemment ca ne fait pas de mal.
Quoted by Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
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“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.”

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— Edgar Degas

"Some of Degas' Views on Art" (p. 56)
Degas hated to paint outdoor and even to see landscape-paintings, like for instance the 'draughty' ones of Monet
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

“.. women… …their way of observing, combining, sensing the way they dress. They compare a thousand of more visible things with one another than a man does.”

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— Edgar Degas

Quote from The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 53
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“I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.”

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— Edgar Degas

"Technical Details" (p. 70)
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

“I put it [a still life of a pear, made by Manet there [on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter'], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.”

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— Edgar Degas

remark in a conversation with the writer Moore, ca. 1875; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 117
1855 - 1875

“I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.”

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— Edgar Degas

John Murray Gibbon, Pagan Love (1922), ch. xiv
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“Certainly, Vollard, but listen: will you have a special dish without butter prepared for me? Mind you, no flowers on the table, and you must have dinner at half past seven sharp. I know you won't have your cat around and please don't allow anybody to bring a dog. And if there are to be any women I hope they won't come reeking of perfume. How horrible all those odors are when there are so many things that really smell good, like toast - or even manure! Ah - (a short hesitation), and very few lights. My eyes, you know, my poor eyes!”

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— Edgar Degas

"Early Encounters" (p. 20)
Quoted by Vollard who came to invite Degas for dinner, that evening
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

“ladies in muslin draped on porches at the fronts of their little houses.... shops bursting with fruit, and the contrast between the lively hum and the bustle of the offices with the immense black animal force... The black world I have not the time to explore; there are some real gifts of colour and drawing in these forests of ebony. It will seem amazing to live among white people when I get back to Paris. I love silhouettes so much, and these silhouettes walk.”

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— Edgar Degas

quote on his journey through America during 1872
Quote in Degas' letter to his friend Tissot, Lousiana, America 1872; as cited in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 113-114
1855 - 1875

“I will not admit that a woman can draw like that.”

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— Edgar Degas

Je n'admets pas qu'une femme puisse dessiner comme ca.
Quoted in Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932)
this quote is referring to some etchings by Cassatt, which Degas admired
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“Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.”

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— Edgar Degas

Quoted by George Moore, in Impressions and Opinions (1891)
1876 - 1895

“You need the natural life; I, the artificial.”

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— Edgar Degas

À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
Degas, quoted by George Moore, Impressions and Opinions (1891)
These words were spoken, Moore states, to 'a landscape painter'
1876 - 1895

“I remember a story my father used to tell. As he was coming home one day, he ran across a group of men who were firing on the troops from an ambush. During the excitement a daring onlooker went up to one of the snipers who seemed to be a poor marksman. He took the man's gun and brought down a soldier, then handed it back to its owner who motioned as if to say, 'No, go on. You're a better shot than I am.”

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— Edgar Degas

But the stranger said, 'No, I'm not interested in politics.'
Vollard, Degas and others were talking about the revolution of 1847. Somebody remarked to Degas that he must have been quite young at that time. Than Degas start to quote his father.
Fuente: posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927), p. 40

“Draw all kind of everyday object placed, in such a way that they have in them the life of the man or woman – corsets that have just been removed, for example, and which retain the form of the body. Do a series in aquatint on mourning, different blacks – black veils of deep mourning floating on the face – black gloves – mourning carriages, undertaker’s vehicles – carriages like Venetian gondolas. On smoke – smoker’s smoke, pipes, cigarettes, cigars – smoke from locomotives, from tall factory chimneys, from steam boats, etc. On evening – infinite variety of subjects in cafes, different tones of glass robes reflected in the mirrors. On bakery, bread. Series of baker's boys, seen in the cellar itself or through the basement windows from the street – backs the colour of the pink flour – beautiful curves of dough – still-life's of different breads, large, oval, long, round, etc. Studies in color of the yellows, pinks, grays, whites of bread…… Neither monuments nor houses have ever been done from below, close up as they appear when you walk down the street. [a working note in which Degas planned series of views of modern Paris, the same time when he sketched the backstreet brothels, making graphic unflinching and even his realistic 'pornographic' sketches he called his 'glimpses through the keyhole', in which he also experimented with perspectives]”

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— Edgar Degas

Quote from Degas' Notebooks; Clarendon Press, Oxford 1976, nos 30 & 34 circa 1877; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 182
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