Edouard Manet Quotes

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

Nature is the art of God.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Black is not a color.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.