Berthe Morisot Quotes

#1. 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

#2. My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Berthe Morisot

#3. 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

#4. It is important to express oneself ... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

Berthe Morisot

#5. A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

#6. I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

Berthe Morisot

#7. Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

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