To Berthe Morisot:
The study of nature is unimportant because painting is a conventional art and it would be infinitely better to learn drawing from Holbein.
To Max Liebermann:
I would like to be rich enough to buy back all my pictures and destroy them by pushing my foot through the canvas.
To Bartholome (Naples, January 17, 1886):
How pretty the photographed drawing is that you gave me! But it is essential to do the same subject over again, ten times a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be chance, not even movement.
From the Degas manuscripts
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