Mary Cassatt Quotes
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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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Women should be someone and not something.
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The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.
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It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
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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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There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.
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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.
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Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.
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World will suffice for me in the future.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.
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