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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.
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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
Related:
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists!
One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. -- Edgar Dega...
Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated.
It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty....
MEMORY ERROR: Now what?
One seldom sees a monument to a committee.
blit /blit/ vt. 1. [common] To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another pa
particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen....