Mary Cassatt Quotes

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together.

Have I felt misunderstood by Music Row at times? Of course.

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured...it was like coming home.

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

She pulled away. “I missed you, Percy.” Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he’d kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of Annabeth. I missed you didn’t really cover that.

It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper connection with the audience that way.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.