“Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.”

— Edgar Degas

Quoted by Julian Barnes, 'The Artist As Voyeur' (1996), from The Grove Book of Art Writing, ed. Martin Gayford and Karen Wright (Grove Press, 2000)
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French artist 1834–1917

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