What did Marie Bashkirtseff mean by: The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine Copy
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marie Bashkirtseff, Expectations, Perception, Reality, 0 Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine
To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marie Bashkirtseff, Gender, Independence, Relationships, 0 Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marie Bashkirtseff, Humanity, Indignation, Mortality, 0 Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine
When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marie Bashkirtseff, Opportunity, Pessimism, Regret, 0 Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marie Bashkirtseff, Aesthetics, Interpretation, Perception, 0 Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marie Bashkirtseff, Curiosity, Exploration, Knowledge, 0 Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine
They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marie Bashkirtseff, Fortune, Perception, Relationships, 0 Marie Bashkirtseff Painter · Ukraine
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
