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.
Source: In Artists on Art: From the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1945.
-- Gustave Courbet, (Jun 10 1819-1877), French painter; He was a leader of the realist movement rebelling against the romantics; painted The Stone Breakers, 1849.