Edgar Degas Quotes

It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Art lies by its own artifice.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Movies are different from real life.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I can fool people that I was educated.

Things are not always as they seem.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.