American Printmaker Quotes

Mary Cassatt

Edward Hopper

Elizabeth Catlett

Though I studied with Robert Henri, I was never a member of the Ash-Can School. You see, it had a sociological trend which didn't interest me.

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

My artwork is about resistance, de-colonization, self-definition, self-empowerment and survival. I draw upon myths, family folklore, and indigenismo (a native way of being). I reinterpret and register all these as cultural, visual, iconographic manifestations of my identity. As the subject matter of my art, I exalt a lineage of women, energized from a sacred space of creation.

If a woman has her PhD in physics, has mastered quantum theory, plays flawless Chopin, was once a cheerleader, and is now married to a man who plays baseball, she will forever be "former cheerleader married to star athlete."

Maryanne Ellison Simmons

Advance is difficult and departure from the accepted path is dangerous; but difficulty and danger are old acquaintances.

Elizabeth Catlett