Mary Cassatt quotes
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“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 and color.”
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“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 joy for an artist?”
-- Mary CassattSource : Mary Cassatt (2006). “Cassatt”, New Line Books
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“I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.”
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“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 not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Mary Cassatt, Judith A. Barter, Erica E. Hirshler, Art Institute of Chicago (1998). “Mary Cassatt, modern woman”
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“The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr
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“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.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr
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“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 from their convictions; he doesn't believe that everyone should see alike.”
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“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 art then as I wanted to see it.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932). “Mary Cassatt”
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“There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Mary Cassatt, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1966). “The Paintings of Mary Cassatt: A Benefit Exhibition for the Development of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 1 Through 26, 1966”
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“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.”
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“Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.”
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“Women should be someone and not something.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt (2005). “Mary Cassatt”, Chaucer Pr
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“It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”
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“I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2008). “Women impressionists”
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“At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.”
-- Mary CassattSource : Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1970). “Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926”
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