Dog lover Quotes by Marie Bashkirtseff

I am the most interesting book of all.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

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

They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

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

— Marie Bashkirtseff

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a…

— Marie Bashkirtseff

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

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