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• When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just… — Jack Handey
• Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill
• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example… — Hans Haacke
• The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the… — 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… — Stephane Mallarme
• Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too.… — Claude Monet
• It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such… — Theophile Gautier
• Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it… — Robert Henri
• The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — 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… — Anthony Caro
• Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother? — Christopher Moore

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