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“It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary.
— Edgar Degas
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Quoted in Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
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