Cassatt and her circle: selected letters
A source page for quotes linked to Mary Cassatt.
“The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.”
“Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.”
“I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.”
“I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.”
“It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”
“Women should be someone and not something.”
“There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.”