No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. – Edgar Degas
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
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming. – Edgar Degas
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
