Marie Bashkirtseff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Men #Mind #Consideration
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 ...
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Art #Men #Feelings
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 Bashkirtseff

#Desire #Want #Pressure
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.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Believe #Blow #Life And Death
Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Paris
When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Regret #Opportunity #Missing
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ...
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Stupidity #Human Nature #Humans
Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Time #May #Doe
... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Desire #Should
They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Wish
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Art #Charming
Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work ...
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Art #Beginners #Forget
Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Soul #Body #Painting
What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Ambition
To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Grief #Would Be #Ridiculous
Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Man and cats are unworthy creatures.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Dog #Cat #Men
I am the most interesting book of all.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Book #Interesting #Most Interesting
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Expectations #Terrible
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Reality #Anticipation
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Ambition #Fighting #Suffering
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 Bashkirtseff

#Littles #Matter #Way
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Acceptance #Long

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