Edgar Degas, n.All

Edgar Degas is an artist for whom realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Edgar Degas is an artist who portrays women not in a way that presupposes an audience - as painting had always don - but as simple, honest creatures concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations. It is as if you were looking through a the keyhole.

Edgar Degas is called the painter of dancers, but he really wished to capture movement itself.

Edgar Degas is nothing but a peeping Tom, behind the coulisses, and among the dressing-rooms of the ballet dancers, noting only travesties of fallen debased womanhood.