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 Copy Share Image
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
