It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what … - Edgar Degas

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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality

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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Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

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The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

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