Quote#Art
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I…
Quote byMary Cassatt · 1844–1926
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 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.
English (original)
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
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