Edouard Manet

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. –--Manet to Monet, on Renoir--- ↗

— Edouard Manet

#giving-up #art

I need to work to feel well. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#i #need #well #work

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#hail #insults #me #pouring #thick

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

#begin #got #haven #humbug #instantly

Black is not a color. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#color

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#matter #sensitivity #taste

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

— Edouard Manet

#another #areas #colour #lines #nature

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

#enough #far #feeling #imagination #know

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

— Edouard Manet

#cares #else #painter #painting #unless

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

#been #broken #constantly #feels #i