Mary Cassatt Quotes
- I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
- It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
- Women should be someone and not something.
- Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.
- Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could…
- I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that…
- There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.
- There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.
- If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line…
- I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw…
- World will suffice for me in the future.
- Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature…
- It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.
- The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.
- At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.
- I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.
- Im stupid