Marie Bashkirtseff Quotes

• 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

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

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Men, Mind, Consideration

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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 Bashkirtseff

  Art, Forget Everything, Beginners

  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.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Ambition

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• Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884".

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• I am the most interesting book of all.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Book, Interesting, Most Interesting

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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.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Ambition, Fighting, Suffering

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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 Bashkirtseff

  Desire, Want, Pressure

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Acceptance, Long, Knows

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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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.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Men, Feelings

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

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Reality, Anticipation

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Stupidity, Human Nature, Humans

  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 Bashkirtseff

  Desire, Should

  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 Bashkirtseff

  Soul, Body, Painting

  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.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Charming, Commonplace

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

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Wish, Fortunate

  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 Bashkirtseff

  Time, Doe, May

  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.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Believe, Blow, Life And Death

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• Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Paris

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Expectations, Worry, Terrible

  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 Bashkirtseff

  Regret, Opportunity, Missing

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1891). “Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff”, London : Cassell

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• To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Grief, Would Be, Ridiculous

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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