1.
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
Berthe Morisot
2.
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.
Berthe Morisot
3.
It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot
4.
I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
Berthe Morisot
5.
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
Berthe Morisot
6.
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.
Berthe Morisot
7.
I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.
Berthe Morisot
8.
In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.
Berthe Morisot