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

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

- Mary Cassatt

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

- Mary Cassatt

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

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

- Mary Cassatt

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

- Mary Cassatt

Women should be someone and not something.

- Mary Cassatt

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

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

- Mary Cassatt