Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (French: [bɛʁt mɔʁizo]; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. (wikipedia)
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your 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=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.
I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.
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.
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
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.
It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.