Quotes from Edgar Degas

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

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.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

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