I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life.
In plain words
As a girl she pressed her nose to a window to soak up art she loved.
Where these words come from
- 80% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt: A Life (Yale UP, 1998), p.114 (Wikiquote Sourced section, recollection c.1875).
- Recollection quoted in Mary Cassatt: A Life
- 1875 · Paris, France · Cassatt recalling seeing paintings in a gallery window that inspired her
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