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
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
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
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
