“In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.”
Other Edgar Degas Quotes
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 
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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 Degas
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
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