It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas
Taste! It doesnt exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. – Edgar Degas
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair