It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. Edgar Degas Read Quote
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. Edgar Degas Read Quote
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. Edgar Degas Read Quote
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming. Edgar Degas Read Quote
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas Read Quote
