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ART in the PICTURE .com - Artists - Berthe Morisot - Quotes


Quotes "It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience."

"In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment is love of the intellect; I can answer: passion is the love of the body."

"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."

"Real painters understand with a brush in their hand."


Edouard Manet about Berthe Morisot:
"This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man."