27 Quotes by Elizabeth Aston

You can’t jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can’t jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one’s own troubles.

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one’s life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.