More from Edgar Degas
- ‘The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas’, (1961)
- Quote of Degas in conversation with George Moore, later quoted by Moore in Impressions and Opinions (1891)
- Ambroise Vollard, Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927), “As He Grows Old”, p. 87
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.
Edgar Degas on art
As quoted in Ambroise Vollard, Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927), p. 56
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