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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...
• 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
• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists!
  One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. -- Edgar Dega...
• Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
  -- Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove...
• I was a less than serious student in college. If I had it to do over again, I would be far more serious.
  I did play a lot of golf. But I don't think that's any reflection on my ability to lead this nation....
• Was that love that I saw in your eye or the reflection of mine? -- Marillio
• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. -- 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...