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• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. -- Edgar Dega
• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
  -- Edgar Dega...
• The difference between art and science is that if something works in art, you don't have to explain why.
• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times.
  In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. -- Edgar Dega...
• A friend is something you earn.
• Aren't you forgetting something?
• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false: -- Dega
• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
  Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)...
• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. -- Edgar Dega