Edgar Degas
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.
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There is beauty and humility in imperfection...I do not want people to be very agreeable...Facts are stubborn things...Art is not what you see, but what you make others see...It may be possible to gild pure gold...Life's too short to just breeze on by...