Quotes About Mary Cassatt

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

Stanley Cesar

#2. 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

#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. He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.

Elizabeth Bowen

#5. The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the reader to feel their own body while they are reading, is this: we live by and through the body, and the body, is a walking contradiction.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#6. Women should be someone and not something.

Mary Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

#8. 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

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

Mary Cassatt

#10. Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#11. The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Clearly the path of mitzvot is a form of meditation. The intention to act impeccably requires complete dedication and unwavering attention. I was also impressed with LUzzato's insistence that mitzvot practice is joyful.

Sylvia Boorstein

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

Guy Pearce

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

Mary Cassatt

#19. Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!
If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

Paula V. Hardin

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

Mary Cassatt

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

Mary Cassatt

#22. Lucky people seem to create an alternative support system - faith, prayer, hobbies, meditation, friends - to tide over their bad phases and are thus able to use such periods to the best of their abilities.

Ashwin Sanghi

#23. 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

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

Mary Cassatt