“And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.”
― Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

The Entrance of the Masked Dancers, c. 1884.

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“The soulless have no need of melancholia”
― Vladimir Odoevsky

Edgar Degas, Melancholy, 1874

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

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse),

1873–1876

Edgar Degas,
“Four Dancers,” 1899.

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Edgar Degas

Self portrait 1855

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