Berthe Quotes

#1. Berthe was wonderfully well educated for a Frenchwoman of that period, and surprisingly handsome for a Frenchwoman of any.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#2. Marie, now Mme. Driscoll, turned to Berthe and smiled, as she used to when they were children. Once again, the smile said, Have I done the right thing? Is this what you wanted? Yes, yes, said Berthe silently, but she went on crying.

Mavis Gallant

#3. 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

#4. Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.

Emile Zola

#5. 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

#6. It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

Gavin DeGraw

#7. It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.

Roland Barthes

#8. If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.

Cora Carmack

#9. I was never part of the crowd.

Jimmy Connors

#10. All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it;

Hermann Hesse

#11. Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

Mitch Kapor

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

Berthe Morisot

#13. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Henry A. Kissinger

#14. For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

Pankaj Mishra

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

Berthe Morisot

#16. Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.

Bas Rutten

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

Berthe Morisot

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

Berthe Morisot

#19. I had a gift too; not the bright and shining coin that was Christopher's. It was my way to turn over all that glittered and look for the tarnish.

V.C. Andrews

#20. There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

Marshall McLuhan

#21. 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

#22. I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

Joe Wright

#23. He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.

Oscar Wilde

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

Berthe Morisot

#25. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Amy Winehouse

#26. 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

#27. The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Edna St. Vincent Millay