Berthe Morisot quotes
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“Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.”
-- Berthe MorisotSource : Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.219, Univ of California Press
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“It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.”
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“A love of nature is a consolation against failure.”
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“I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.”
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“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 MorisotSource : Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.203, Univ of California Press
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“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.”
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“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 MorisotSource : Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.199, Univ of California Press
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“My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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“I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.”
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“I will preach with my brush.”
Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”
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“The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.”
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