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. ”

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ”

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. ”

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. ”