Berthe Morisot Quotes
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..scumbled froth.. ..capable of indicating a mouth, eyes, a nose with a single stroke of the brush, the rest of the face modeled by the perfect accuracy of these indications.
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I say, 'I should like to die', but that's not true at all, I should like to get younger.. ..youth and old age are similar in more ways than one, and they are the two moments in life when one can feel one's own soul which would be a proof that it exists.
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It is odd that Edouard Manet with his reputation as an innovator, who has survived such storms of criticism, should suddenly be seen as a classicist. It just proves the imbecility of the public, for he has always been a classic painter.
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It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
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I have found an honest and excellent man Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.
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Men readily believe that they will fill a whole life; but for my part, I believe that however fond one is of one's husband, one does not relinquish a life of work without some difficulty; affection is a very pretty thing provided it is coupled with something to fill one's day; that something, for you, I see as motherhood.
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My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.
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I do not like this place Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a small fishing-village on the Spanish border. I find it arid and dried up. The sea here is ugly. It is either all blue - I hate it like that - or dark and dull.
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Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
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It seems to me a painting she is working on like the one I gave Manet 'The Harbour at Lorient' could perhaps sell, and that is all I care about.
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Would you do us the great favour, you and Mademoiselle Geneviève, of coming to dine next Thursday? Monet will be there, Renoir also..
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A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
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He Manet holds up that eternal Mademoiselle Gonzales as an example; she has poise, perseverance, she can get her things finished whereas I am incapable of doing anything properly. In the meantime he Manet has started her portrait again, for the twenty-fifth time. She poses every day, and every night he rubs out the head..
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I am keen to earn some money.. ..beginning to lose all hope.. .What I see most clearly is that my situation in impossible from every point of view.
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The love of art.. ..reconciles us to our lined faces and white hear. Berthe Morisot was 40 years then
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I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my worth.
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Corot spoiled the 'étude' study we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio.
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He Manet begged me to go straight up and see his painting 'Le Balcon' - Berthe was model for this painting, as he was rooted to the spot. I've never seen anyone in such a state, one minute he was laughing, the next insisting his picture was dreadful; in the next breath, sure it would be a huge success.
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..the glimpse of the dome of St. Paul's through the forest of yellow masts, the whole thing bathed in a golden haze.
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I think that it will be a great success, that all this painting of Edouard Manet, shortly after his death, so fresh, so vital, will electrify the 'Palais des Beaux Arts' in Paris, which is accustomed to dead art. It will be the revenge for so many rebuffs, but a revenge that the poor boy only in his grave.
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I can not get over everything you did for me in that first day for his support to hang her works on the 7th Impressionist exhibition, Spring 1882, it seems to me that you are working yourself to death, and all on my account. This touches me deeply and vexes me at the same time.
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Your phrase: 'I am working hard at growing old', is absolutely me. What if you were always to speak in my place..
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Music and painting should never be literary, a very subtle distinction according to Renoir. As soon as I try to represent an individual, their physiognomy and attitudes, I become a literary artist.
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His Edouard Manet's paintings, as they always do, produce the impression of a wild or even a somewhat unripe fruit. I do not in the least dislike them.