Edgar Degas Quotes

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

There are no actions involved in 'beautiful.' It's such an inactive thing, and it's so subject to each individual's taste and appreciation. It's a lovely word, but I feel like it's been hijacked by really boring, dull people who don't understand how to use words.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.