Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassattwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 May 1844
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
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?
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.