“I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.”

—  Edgar Degas

"Methods of Work" (p. 64)
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

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