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• 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...
• 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 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...
• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. -- Edgar Dega
• Rudnicki's Nobel Principle: Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it.
• One thing about intellectuals, they proved that they can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.
  -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall...
• Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape. -- Edgar Degas (1834-1900)
• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. -- Edgar Dega
• If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
  -- Van Gogh...