Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Cassatt

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

American - Artist | May 22, 1844 - June 14, 1926

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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.

Mary Cassatt

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Mary Cassatt

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 Cassatt

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 Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

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.

Mary Cassatt

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

Mary Cassatt

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 Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

World will suffice for me in the future.

Mary Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

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 Cassatt

Women should be someone and not something.

Mary Cassatt

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.

Mary Cassatt

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.

Mary Cassatt

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Cassatt

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