Edouard Manet Quotes

Édouard Manet was a French modernist 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.

Birth: January 23, 1832 - Death: April 30, 1883

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.

Topic(s): Knows , Art , Wells

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

Topic(s): Country , Charm , Obliged

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.

Topic(s): Eye , Differences , Mouths

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

Topic(s): Care , Painting , Painter

Black is not a color.

Topic(s): Black , Color

The principal person in a picture is light.

Topic(s): Persons , Light , Vision

I need to work to feel well.

Topic(s): Feels , Needs , Wells

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

Topic(s): Paint

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

Topic(s): Eye , Symmetry

Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

Topic(s): Matter , Color , Taste

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

Topic(s): Kissing

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

Topic(s): Lines , Areas , Colour

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Edouard Manet Quotes