Mary Cassatt Quotes

Mary Cassatt — American Artist born on May 22, 1844, died on June 14, 1926

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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