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Gustave Courbet
The beautiful is...
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs...
Beauty, like truth,...
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of...
The expression of...
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has...
Painting is the...
Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the...
I hope to...
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much...