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Artistes, poe'  tes, e¤  crivains, si vous copiez toujours, on ne vous copiera jamais. Artists, poets, writers, if you copy others all the time, no one will copy you.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Me¤  moires sur la me¤  nagerie.

It is all very well to copy what you see; it is much better to draw what you see only in memory.

-Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar
Quoted in R H Ives Gammell The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas (1961).

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