I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
More Quotes from Gustave Courbet:
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.Gustave Courbet
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.
Gustave Courbet
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
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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.
Gustave Courbet
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