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Gustave Courbet
June 10, 1819 - December 31, 1877
Nationality: French
Category: Artist
Subcategory: French Artist

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

   

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

   

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

   

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

   

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

   

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

   

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing 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.

   

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

   

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

   

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