I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.
When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important - Gustave Courbet
When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
- Gustave Courbet
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to im… - Gustave Courbet
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to im…
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power. - Gustave Courbet
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, t… - Gustave Courbet
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, t…
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. - Gustave Courbet
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal. - Gustave Courbet
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. - Gustave Courbet
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. - Gustave Courbet
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them. - Gustave Courbet
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
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