Berthe Morisot quotes:

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

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.

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

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

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

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.

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.

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.