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

- Marie Bashkirtseff

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

- Marie Bashkirtseff

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

- Marie Bashkirtseff

I am the most interesting book of all.

- 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

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

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

- Marie Bashkirtseff

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

- Marie Bashkirtseff

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

- Marie Bashkirtseff