Mary Cassatt Quotes

• Women should be someone and not something.

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  Should

  Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt (2005). “Mary Cassatt”, Chaucer Pr

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• Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

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  Acceptance, Rejection, Term

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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?

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  Art, People, Joy

  Mary Cassatt (2006). “Cassatt”, New Line Books

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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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  Inspiring, Art, Passion

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• I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

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  Independent, History, I Can

  Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2008). “Women impressionists”

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• There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

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  Two, Way, Easy

  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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• 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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  Positive, Peace, Fall

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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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  Mother, Sacrifice, Artist

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• The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

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  Sight, Artistic Life, Degas

  Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr

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• It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

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  Art, Saws, Changed

  Sally Webster, Mary Cassatt (2004). “Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman: A Mural by Mary Cassatt”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

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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.

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  Admiration, Imitation, Danger

  Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr

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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.

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  Art, Firefighter, Noses

  Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932). “Mary Cassatt”

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• World will suffice for me in the future.

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  Travel, World

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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.

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  Together Again, Would Be, Armor

  Mary Cassatt, Judith A. Barter, Erica E. Hirshler, Art Institute of Chicago (1998). “Mary Cassatt, modern woman”

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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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  Believe, Artist, Cezanne

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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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  Thinking, People, World

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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.

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  New York, School, Artist

  Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1970). “Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926”

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