Morisot Quotes & Sayings

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past. — Berthe Morisot

I remembered some of what I'd read in the past: the small group of the original Impressionists, including one woman-Berthe Morisot- who'd first banded together in 1874 to exhibit works in a style that the Paris Salon found too experimental for inclusion. We postmoderns take them for granted, or disdain them, or love them too easily. — Elizabeth Kostova

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious. — Michael Scott

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive. — Berthe Morisot

It is important to express oneself ... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. — Berthe Morisot

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. — Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure. — Berthe Morisot

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

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

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