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.Collection: Art
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.Collection: Future
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
Women should be someone and not something.Collection: Should
Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.Collection: Acceptance
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?Collection: Art
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.Collection: Inspiring
There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.Collection: Two
I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.Collection: Independent
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.Collection: Mother
The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.Collection: Sight
It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Admiration
World will suffice for me in the future.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Together Again
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.Collection: Believe
At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.Collection: New York