Manet Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me,… — Jack Handey
Have not Manet and Monet, CÃ©zanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the… — Winston Churchill
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… — Hans Haacke
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,… — Marc Chagall
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour. — Vincent Van Gogh
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… — Stephane Mallarme
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,… — Claude Monet
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… — Theophile Gautier
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… — Robert Henri
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
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!… — Anthony Caro
Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother? — Christopher Moore
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… — Edgar Degas
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… — J. G. Ballard
However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but as you know… — Vincent Van Gogh
All summer I've been sitting in front of my favorite Manet and reading Colette in the park. Hoping that I'll lock eyes with somebody who's… — Blair Waldorf

Who Wrote These Manet Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Manet Quotes as follows: