Mary Cassatt Quotes & Sayings

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

Women should be someone and not something. — 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

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

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

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future. — 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

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

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

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

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

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