Berthe Morisot
1841 - 1895
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Biography
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was a French Impressionist painter and a prominent female artist of her time. She was born into a wealthy family and showed a talent for art at an early age. Morisot was closely associated with Edouard Manet and later married his brother, Eugene Manet. She exhibited her work in several Impressionist exhibitions and gained recognition for her innovative use of color and light. Morisot's paintings often depicted domestic scenes, portraits, and landscapes infused with a sense of intimacy and spontaneity.
Famous Quotes (5)
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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.
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I don't think I can produce any evidence of an artist that has been influential in my work although for all I know there may be without my knowledge.
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The love of painting would seem to be incompatible with the love of the earth.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.