Quotes About Edouard Manet

#1. I would kiss you, had I the courage.

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

#4. Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

Ja Rule

#5. 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

#6. Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

#9. The principal person in a picture is light.

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

#12. Black is not a color.

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

#15. I need to work to feel well.

Edouard Manet

#16. When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

Beth Riesgraf

#17. Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.

Chris Paine

#18. Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

#21. 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

#22. Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

Edouard Manet

#23. Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Edouard Manet

#24. Why do people say to grow a pair of balls? Balls are weak and sensitive. They should say grow a vagina, those things can take a pounding.

Sophie Monroe

#25. 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

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

Edouard Manet

#27. The latest fashion ... is absolutely necessary for a painting. It's what matters most.

Edouard Manet

#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. 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

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

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

#32. 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

#33. To the left, just past the painting, on the other side of the hall, is the bathroom, the sort of open door that if cameras found it as they passed through the house in a horror movie would trigger a blast of synthesizers.

John Darnielle

#34. 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

#35. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Jeffrey Eugenides