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Mary Cassatt
6 quotes
“O how wild I am to get to work, my fingers farely itch & my eyes water to see a fine picture again.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Villard Books, New York, 1994, p. 76 - ISBN 978-0-394-58497-3
“I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe. I am very anxious to go out west next fall & get some employment, but I have not yet decided where.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from her letter of July, 1871; as quoted in her biography online at
“I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his [Degas'] art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, c. 1875; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 114 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1
“..we [the Impressionists ] are carrying on a despairing fight & need all our forces.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote c. 1879; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Villard Books, New York, 1994, p. 118 - ISBN 978-0-394-58497-3
“If you [[w:Ambroise Vollard|[Vollard] ]] should ever happen to find that picture ['Milliners's workshop'] by Edgar Degas I know an American who will pay any price for it.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mary Cassatt, quoted by Paris' art-dealer [[w:Ambroise Vollard|[Vollard] ]], in Degas, an Intimate Portrait, Courier Corporation, 1927, p. 90
“..crushed by the strength of this Art [the old Egyptian art].. .I fought against it but it conquered, it is surely the greatest Art the past has left us.. ..how are my feeble hands to ever paint the effect on me.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Cassatt, after her trip to Egypt, 1910; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 291 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1