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

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Source : Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas (1996). “Degas As a Collector”

Edgar Degas

#Art Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Study Quotes

“Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.”

Source : Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation
“Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.”
“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”
“The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.”
“You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.”
“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press
“Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.”
“... France is the genius among nations.”

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