One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar DegasThese women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
Edgar DegasThe museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Edgar Degas