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Edouard Manet Quotes:

Edouard Manet quotes

Ocupation: Artist

Life: January 23, 1832 - April 30, 1883

Birthday: January 23

Death: April 30

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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.

Topics: Imagination, Feelings, Crafts

quote i paint what i see and not what others like to see edouard manet Quotes

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Topics: Lines, Colour

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.

Topics: Real, Believe, Canvas

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Topics: Paint, Humbug, True Things

Black is not a color.

Topics: Color, Black

Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

Topics: Color, Matter, Taste

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

Topics: Kissing

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.

Topics: Order, Water, Swim

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Topics: Art, Men, Thinking, Concise

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

Topics: School, Tasks, Masters

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

Topics: Country, Charm

The principal person in a picture is light.

Topics: Light, Vision, Persons

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Topics: Color

In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

source: - "Portrait of Manet by himself and his contemporaries". Book edited by Pierre Courthion, p. 98, 1960.

Topics: Memories, Light, Shadow, Lunatic Asylums, Wardens

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

Topics: Eye, Symmetry

I need to work to feel well.

Topics: Work, Needs, Wells

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

Topics: Rooms, Firsts, Lucky, Patron

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

Topics: Eye, Differences, Portraiture

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Topics: Study, Painting, Hell

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

Topics: Knowing, Water, Swim

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Topics: Men, Exceptional

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Topics: Pouring, Comeback, Insult

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Topics: Art, Elegance, Trimming

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Topics: Names, Sound, Advantage, Monet, Taking Advantage

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

source: - "Edouard Manet: Symphony in off-white" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.

Topics: Paint

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.

Topics: Spring, People, Broken

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.

Topics: Paint, Begin Again, Humbug

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Topics: Care, Painting, Painter

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

Topics: Paint

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

Topics: Fashion, What Matters, Matter

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