"Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again."

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Source : Mary Cassatt, Judith A. Barter, Erica E. Hirshler, Art Institute of Chicago (1998). “Mary Cassatt, modern woman”

Mary Cassatt

#Together Quotes #Armor Quotes #Degas Quotes

“A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.”
“I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.”
“Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.”

Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
“I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.”
“Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.”
“The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.”
“Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that happened. So it's the old thing that you still cannot trust photography at all or you have to know who is distributing the photograph. In terms of cell phone photography, I think nobody cares about a photograph anymore because they're taking so many pictures just for fun.”
“I am sure some people will say I am a killjoy for taking away the right of those men who wish to pay for sex, but I do not think it is inevitable for men to pay for sex.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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