Quote #18

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

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  1. Je voudrais etre illustre et inconnu.
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  3. Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition? Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I sai…
  4. C'est tres bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son memoire. C'est une transfor…
  5. The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
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  7. If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don'…
  8. There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

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