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O how wild I am to get to work, my fingers farely itch & my eyes water to see a fine picture again.

— Mary Cassatt

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Quote, c. 1871 - shortly after the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned Mary Cassatt to paint two copies of paintings by Correggio in Parma, Italy

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