About Edouard Manet: Édouard Manet was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
Black is not a color.
Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
I would kiss you, had I the courage.
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. –--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
I need to work to feel well.
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
