Edouard Manet's Quotes

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

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 need to work to feel well.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

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.

Black is not a color.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

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

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

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.