Mary Cassatt Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Women should be someone and not something.

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

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.

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.