Quotes about Édouard Manet

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I have found an honest and excellent man [Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet, the painter] who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.

.. once started, nothing could stop him [Edouard Manet, correcting in a painting, fresh-made by Berthe - a portrait of her sister Edma with her young child Cornélie]; from the skirt he went to the bust, from the bust to the head, from the head to the background. He cracked a thousand jokes, laughed like a madman, handed me the palette, took it back; finally by five o'clock in the afternoon we had made the best caricature you have ever seen.