Mary Cassatt citations

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, dite Mary Cassatt , née le 22 mai 1844, à Allegheny, Pennsylvania en Pennsylvanie et morte le 14 juin 1926 au Mesnil-Théribus en France, où elle est enterrée, est une peintre et graveuse américaine. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. mai 1844 – 14. juin 1926
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Mary Cassatt: 5 citations0 J'aime

Mary Cassatt: Citations en anglais

“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

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
Cassatt admired Edgar Degas, whose pastels had made a powerful impression on her when she encountered them in an art dealer's window in Paris, 1875

“O how wild I am to get to work, my fingers farely itch & my eyes water to see a fine picture again.”

Mary Cassatt

quoted by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Villard Books, New York, 1994, p. 76 - ISBN 978-0-394-58497-3
Quote, c. 1871 - shortly after the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned Mary Cassatt to paint two copies of paintings by Correggio in Parma, Italy

“.. 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

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

“.. we [the Impressionists ] are carrying on a despairing fight & need all our forces.”

Mary Cassatt

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

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