I think that it will be a great success, that all this painting [of Ed — Berthe Morisot

"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."

"There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination."

"His [ Edouard Manets] 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."

"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."

"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.."

"The tall fellow Bazille has done something I find quite fine: a young girl [in his painting View on the village ] in a very light dress in the shadow of a tree beyond which one sees a town. There is a good deal of light, sunlight, He is trying to do what we [Berthe and her sister Edma] have so often tried to bring off: to paint a figure in the open air. This time I think he has succeed."