“Vollard, please do not say anything against fashions. Have you ever asked yourself what would happen if there were no fashions? How would women spent their time? What would they have to talk about? Life would become unbearable for us men. Why, if women were to break away from the rules of fashion - fortunately there is no danger - the government would have to step in and take a hand.”

—  Edgar Degas

"Early Encounters" (p. 26)
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

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