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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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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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