Cassatt Quotes

#1. Mary Cassatt's Painting #11: Lilacs in a Window, 1879

Stanley Cesar

#2. Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

Spike Jonze

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

Mary Cassatt

#4. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We

Richard Carlson

#5. A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

Nicole Krauss

#6. Women should be someone and not something.

Mary Cassatt

#7. I was wondering what kind of giant would come, but you're just some tail-coated Romeo.

Yana Toboso

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

Mary Cassatt

#9. If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Benny Goodman

#10. Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.

Dave Barry

#11. 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

#12. Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people.

Karen Clark

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

Mary Cassatt

#14. Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Scott Westerfeld

#15. 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

#16. I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Maurice Sendak

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Mary Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

#24. 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

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

Mary Cassatt