Morisot Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

Michael Scott

#3. 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

#4. Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

Mary J. Blige

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

Berthe Morisot

#6. The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

Ernestine Rose

#8. The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

Sheri S. Tepper

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

Berthe Morisot

#10. I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.

Richard C. Armitage

#11. I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

Shaun Cassidy

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

Berthe Morisot

#13. What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Chevy Chase

#14. Meg, I give you your faults."
"My faults!" Meg cried.
"Your faults."
"But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"
"Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Berthe Morisot

#16. The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth.

Gabrielle Tozer

#17. 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

#18. Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

Asghar Farhadi

#19. About six months ago, after my fortieth, I started to feel so ... the only word I can think of is 'bland.' Or 'flat' might be a better word.

Liane Moriarty

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

Berthe Morisot

#21. Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Lukas Podolski

#22. 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

#23. Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Owen Feltham