Charlotte Cushman Quotes

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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.

Charlotte Cushman

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 Cushman

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.

Charlotte Cushman

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 our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.

Charlotte Cushman

Charlotte Cushman

Charlotte Cushman

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Born: July 23, 1816

Died: February 18, 1876 (aged 59)

Bio: Charlotte Saunders Cushman was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts.

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