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Edgar Degas Quotes: You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
         

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.


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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.



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The true traveler never arrives.

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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.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.



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

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



He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.



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.

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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