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

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Source : Mary Cassatt, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1966). “The Paintings of Mary Cassatt: A Benefit Exhibition for the Development of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 1 Through 26, 1966”

Mary Cassatt

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“But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd say that I do have some tools left. There are days I can't make a sentence out of anything, and anything I make looks clunky to me. But I still have a general grasp of the cliché, of the generic sentence. And if I didn't have that, I'd be a blob of putty on the floor.”

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“I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.”
“Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.”

Source : John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
“I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.”

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“This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.”
“Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - theyÂ have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.”
“When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.”
“You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I canâ€™t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.”

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