Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
