Marie Bashkirtseff quotes
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“To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.”
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“art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings ...”
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“I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.”
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“Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1891). “Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff”, London : Cassell
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“When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ...”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...”
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“Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work ...”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.”
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“To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Man and cats are unworthy creatures.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : "Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884".
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“I am the most interesting book of all.”
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“The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.”
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“Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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“To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.”
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“I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff, Phyllis Howard Kernberger, Katherine Kernberger (1997). “I am the most interesting book of all: the diary of Marie Bashkirtseff”, Chronicle Books Llc
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“I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.”
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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