Top 51 Manet's Quotes
#1. I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
Christian Louboutin
#2. Many of these omnibuses were driven, oddly enough, by male models who had retired from the business, which meant that Parisians of Manet's day were transported around the city by men who had once posed as valiant biblical heroes or the vindictive deities of classical mythology.
Ross King
#3. Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?
Edouard Manet
#4. It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.
Theophile Gautier
#5. I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
Edgar Degas
#6. One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
[Lat., Omnes una manet nox,
Et calcanda semel via leti.]
Horace
#7. 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.
Edouard Manet
#8. Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
Edouard Manet
#9. There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet
#10. Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.
Mike Svob
#11. This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet
#12. Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.
Anthony Caro
#13. Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
#16. Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water
in order to learn how to swim.
Edouard Manet
#18. Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
Vincent Van Gogh
#19. When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
J.G. Ballard
#20. Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists. Even then I was always really interested in how the women looked in the images.
Erdem Moralioglu
#21. A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
#22. I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.
Edouard Manet
#23. There are lessons for long-term relationships in the way that Manet approached asparagus.
Alain De Botton
#24. I paint what I see and not what others like to see.
Edouard Manet
#27. Perhaps I'll call it Luncheon on the Grass, then," said Manet. "Since I've clearly forgotten to paint the model wet enough.
Christopher Moore
#28. 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.
Edouard Manet
#29. I'm a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can't paint. I don't know who Vermeer is, or Manet for that matter. But if you think ordinary can be beautiful, that gives me hope. And maybe sometime you'll think about me when you need an escape from the hurt in your head.
Amy Harmon
#30. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Edouard Manet
#31. 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.
Edouard Manet
#32. Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
Edouard Manet
#33. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.
Marc Chagall
#34. Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to each other.
Doris Lanier
#36. 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.
Edouard Manet
#37. There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.
Edouard Manet
#39. The latest fashion ... is absolutely necessary for a painting. It's what matters most.
Edouard Manet
#40. The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
Edouard Manet
#41. Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
Edouard Manet
#42. 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.
Edouard Manet
#43. One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.
Edouard Manet
#44. No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Edouard Manet
#45. Manet nonetheless seems to have been captivated by her appearance, or at least by the visual possibilities of dressing her in exotic costumes and placing her in beguiling poses.
Ross King
#46. 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.
Edouard Manet
#47. The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.
Stephane Mallarme
#48. 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.
Edouard Manet
#49. Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
Christopher Hitchens
#50. There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.
Jules Breton
#51. Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
Edouard Manet
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