Charlotte Saunders Cushman Quotes

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.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

other artists – poets, painters, sculptors, musicians – produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, – we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.

To try to be better is to be better.